MCD Selected Studies

Marine Corps Division Publications

Recruiting Hispanics: The Marine Corps Experience Final Report
January 1, 2004
The Marine Corps has been very successful at recruiting Hispanics, and Hispanic recruits do well in the Marine Corps. This study highlights several challenges that may affect the services' ability to recruit Hispanics in the future—including high levels of high school dropout rates, language fluency of recruits and their parents, and citizenship status.
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CNA's Retirement Choice Calculator: Computing DoD's Retirement Options

CNA's Retirement Choice Calculator lets future military retirees determine how much they would earn under DoD's High-3 retirement plan, which bases retirement pay on the highest average basic pay for three years of a career, or under the REDUX plan, which provides a $30,000 upfront bonus with smaller retirement checks over time. (The differing plans affect service members who joined the military after July 31, 1986.) The calculator, developed as part of CNA's Retirement Choice study, allows service members to determine which plan would earn them the most money based on factors including their retirement age, years of service, and the rank at which they will retire. View Calculator