Strengthening Prior Service&ndash;Civil Life Gains and Continuum of Service Accessions into the Army's Reserve Components

doi:10.7249/RR1376

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DOI	10.7249/RR1376
报告编号	RR-1376-A
	Strengthening Prior Service-Civil Life Gains and Continuum of Service Accessions into the Army's Reserve Components
	Jennie W. Wenger; Bruce R. Orvis; David Stebbins; Eric Apaydin; James Syme
	2016
出版年	2016
页数	100
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Many service members join (affiliate with) the Reserve Component (RC) after leaving the Regular Army (RA). Attracting prior service personnel to the RC allows the Army to retain valuable experience. This report combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand service member decisions upon exiting the RA: to join the RC or not; to join the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) versus the Army National Guard; and the timing of their affiliation. Personal characteristics, experiences in the RA, availability of positions in the RC, and economic conditions all are correlated with these decisions. Our results suggest that service members generally choose a geographic location without explicitly considering availability of jobs in the RC. Also, service members who leave the RA when civilian unemployment is high are less likely than others to join the RC. Service members seem to form an impression of overall RC job availability based on the RC jobs available near their last Active Component installation; service members who leave the Army in areas with fewer RC jobs are less likely to join the RC. Finally, those who join the USAR after a break in service spend fewer months serving in the RC than other prior-service recruits. Overall, our findings suggest that focusing recruiting resources on soldiers who are preparing to leave the RA is likely to be cost effective; also, to the extent possible, working to ensure more positions are available in geographic areas that appeal to personnel is likely to pay dividends.
英文关键词	Military Personnel Retention Military Recruitment United States Army Military Reserves Students
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4484
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jennie W. Wenger,Bruce R. Orvis,David Stebbins,et al. Strengthening Prior Service-Civil Life Gains and Continuum of Service Accessions into the Army's Reserve Components:RAND Corporation,2016.