Female recruits and the United States Marine Corps
Subtitle: the transformation process
By: Susan G. Dooley
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Description: This thesis examines initial military training of women in Marine Corps boot camp. The study focuses on changes      implemented in 1996 and applied during four phases of the Commandant's "Transformation Process": recruiting,      recruit training, cohesion, and sustainment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 43 female Marines.      Eleven main themes emerged from the interviews, including: strong consensus that the partially integrated,      phased- approach to boot camp was beneficial to individual women and effective for the Marine Corps;      progressive gender- integration enhances team-building and unit cohesion; the recruiting process prepares      women for the physical, but not the emotional, challenges of boot camp; and the complete integration of women      during the "sustainment" phase still requires substantial reinforcement. The study findings also suggest that Marine      Corps leaders need additional training and education to understand and exemplify the complete "Transformation      Process," to improve acceptance of women in the Marine Corps, and to improve military readiness.
Notes: "March 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Mark J. Eitelberg, Cary A. Simon.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77).

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dk/dk cc:9116 7/22/98.