The impact of fully-funded graduate education and resident JPME on aviator promotion and command selection
By:  Michael S. Orzell
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact that FFGE and JPME have on aviator promotion to the      ranks of Commander and Captain and on selection for command. This thesis accurately measures their impact      by incorporating new measures of performance, namely good jobs. These two proxies for performance were      developed to help capture those unmeasurable characteristics that do not show up on officer Fitness Reports.      This study examines officers appearing before the 1988-1994 Commander and Captain promotion boards.      Two separate Log it models are used to estimate the effects of these educational opportunities on promotion      both before and after the start of the drawdown. Separate Logit regression models for command screen are also      specified for these two time periods. Model results indicate that FFGE had a significant positive impact on      Commander selection and a significant negative impact on command selection in the pre-FY90 period. The      impact of JPME was significant and positive for promotion to Commander in both periods and for command      screen in the pre-FY90 period. Joint Duty Assignment had a significant and negative impact on command      selection in both periods. The results of these models may reflect changes in the policies of the aviation      community toward FFGE and JPME as well as differences in the officers who choose the educational      opportunities. This thesis provides evidence of difficulties in combining FFGE, JPME and JDA in an aviation      career.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Julie A. Dougherty, Gregory E. Hildebrandt.

"March 1998."

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

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