Analysis of advancement and attrition in the Military Ceremonial Units
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) 
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Description: The Navy's Ceremonial Guard, the Air Force Honor Guard, the Army's Old Guard and the Marine Barracks,      Washington are specially dedicated units that provide ceremonial personnel for official functions including      funeral details, foreign dignitary arrivals, color guards and drill teams. The majority of the members are      volunteers selected from recruit training or the immediate follow-on training to begin a two to three year tour      with the appropriate ceremonial unit while putting their normal career progression on hold. Information on      individuals who entered the military service during fiscal years 1986 to 1995 and were assigned to one of the      ceremonial units was collected. The distribution of the time required to advance from paygrade E3 to E4, from      E4 to E5 and from E5 to E6 as well as attrition (voluntary or involuntary) from the same paygrades for the      ceremonial members was compared to the same information from service specific comparative random      samples. The analysis seeks and details any effects on a service member's career for time spent with a      ceremonial unit. The most conspicuous conclusion was that Navy Ceremonial Guard members in paygrade E3      had a higher attrition rate, a lower advancement rate and took longer to attain their advancements to paygrade      E4 than did their random sample counterparts. Affects for other service and paygrade combinations appear      relatively insignificant.
Notes: Thesis advisor, Robert R. Read.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 1997.

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