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Military officer quality in the All-Volunteer Force

[The authors] show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the quality of commissioned... Show more
[The authors] show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the quality of commissioned officers from 1980 to 2014 as measured by the scores of Marine officers on the General Classification Test (GCT), using data obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request. This test has been shown to be a good predictor of success in the military. This result differs from the widely-studied increase in the quality of enlisted personnel since 1973 when conscription ended and the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) began. [The authors] consider a range of possible causes for this decline. [The authors] focus on the fact that, during this period, Marine officers had to have a four-year college degree and there has been an expansion of the pool of young Americans in college. [The authors] find that other factors, such as the increasing diversity of the pool of incoming officers, have not contributed in any meaningful way to the decline in average annual GCT scores.
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Authors: Cancian, Matthew F.; Klein, Michael W.

Date: 2015

Geographic subjects: North America; United States

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Assessment; Industry ... [+] Show more