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Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781984335739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →GAO-06-846 Military Recruiting: DOD and Services Need Better Data to Enhance Visibility over Recruiter Irregularities
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781422309476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The viability of the All Volunteer Force (AVF) depends, in large measure, on the Department of Defense's (DOD) ability to successfully recruit several hundred thousand qualified individuals each year to fill over 1,400 occupational specialties. Since the March 2003 involvement of U.S. military forces in Iraq, attracting sufficient numbers of high-quality recruits to military service has proven to be one of the greatest personnel challenges faced by DOD since the inception of the AVF. The active Army, the Army Reserve, and the Navy Reserve, for example, failed to meet their fiscal year 2005 recruiting goals. Recruitment of high-quality personnel is a tough proposition, made even more challenging in the current environment when the nation is engaged in combat operations. To exacerbate the recruitment challenges further, DOD estimates that over half of the youth in the U.S. population between the ages of 16 and 21 do not meet the minimum requirements to enter military service. Moreover, additional factors such as the shrinking numbers of new recruits in delayed entry programs and the Army Army's use of stop loss, which delays servicemembers from leaving active duty, indicate that the components may experience continued recruiting challenges as they attempt to meet their personnel requirements. To help overcome recruiting challenges, the military services during the past several years have assigned roughly 20,000 recruiters to manage their recruiting programs and achieve their accession goals.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781422396308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 081570187X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing our nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions for the problems that matter most to the future of our society, our prosperity, and our world. Reflecting an impressive breadth of expertise, opinions, and political beliefs, the contributors to this book tackle diverse challenges including how to deal with Iran and Iraq, the rise of China, climate change, poverty and inequality, and retirement security. New chapters in this updated and expanded second edition include examinations of homeland security, foreign aid, health care reform, and the U.S. relationship with Pakistan. Praise for the first edition: "Each chapter contains well-organized, innovative and practical approaches not just for the sitting president, but for the campaigning hopefuls, and should inspire voters to look beyond all-too-typical horse race coverage—and perhaps demand more from their news media and their leaders."—Publishers Weekly Learn more about the Brookings Opportunity 08 project at www.brookings.edu/projects/opportunity08.aspx
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781984948137
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →GAO-06-134 Military Personnel: DOD Needs Action Plan to Address Enlisted Personnel Recruitment and Retention Challenges
Author: William H. Wiist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107146682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preventing War and Promoting Peace focuses on how health professionals can actively engage in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.
Author: Murray Milner, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0745689507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a time when significant social status, economic resources,and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequallydistributed and only available to a few, this book represents thefirst systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociologicalmodel of elites and non-elites. In outlining a new typology ofeconomic, political, and cultural elites, as well as drawingattention to the important role of non-elites, this accessiblywritten book provides novel insights into the structure ofhistorical and contemporary societies. Milner identifies the sources and structures of economic,political, and cultural power, and investigates patterns ofcooperation and conflict between and within elite groups. Analyzingpoliticians and propagandists, landowners and capitalists, nationalheroes and celebrities, ordinary folks and outcasts, the bookapplies its model to three distinctly different societies –ancient India, Classical Athens, and the contemporary United States– highlighting important structural commonalities acrossthese otherwise very dissimilar societies. A significant contribution to scholarship, Elites will alsobe useful for an array of courses in sociology, political science,and history.
Author: Adam McGlynn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1793638489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Proving Patriotismo, the authors examine Latino military recruitment and question whether military service is perceived and functions as a vehicle by which Latinos in the United States can be accepted as first-class citizens and improve their economic station? This work provides the first empirical analysis of the poverty draft by asking over 1,800 Latino high school students in South Texas about their experiences with military recruitment. The authors then employ additional original interview data with high school faculty and administration to assess how the military seeks to attract Latino students. Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces are also surveyed to understand their military experience and assess whether their service improved their acceptance as American and improved their post-service quality of life. The work concludes with an examination of national survey data where Latinos provide their views of the U.S. military and Latino military service. The result of this work is a complex picture where the intersection of poverty, ethnicity and patriotism demonstrates why the U.S. military targets a growing Latino population for recruitment and why Latinos in the United States seeking to improve their economic station and their acceptance as American are open to these overtures.
Author: Douglas L. Kriner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-28
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0199779821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, including National Archives data on the hometowns of more than 400,000 American soldiers killed in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, this book is the most ambitious inquiry to date into the distribution of American wartime casualties across the nation, the forces causing such inequalities to emerge, and their consequences for politics and democratic governance.
