Research for Histories

In the 15-year period of 1977 through 1991, U.S. military forces responded to international crises or incidents in 83 cases. This information memorandum presents key findings from historical data in three studies on U.S. military activity since World War II. It examines the questions of whether there is a baseline global demand for U.S. crisis response activity and what impact the Soviet collapse had on the level of U.S. activity. More specifically, the memorandum discusses the role of naval forces in U.S. crisis response activity, focusing on the steady frequency of naval responses over time, the important role played by carriers and the Marine Corps in those responses, the participation of naval forces in all cases involving terrorism, and the increasing concentration of naval crisis response activity in the Middle East during the 1980s.

This research memorandum documents the slowdown in enlisted Marine promotions in the last decade. It describes the time in grade at promotion for all enlisted Marines promoted from FY 1979 through FY 1990.

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy has played a major role in at least 187 U.S. responses to international incidents and crises. This research memorandum provides a summary of these Navy crisis management operations.

This paper reports on the construction of an interactive, historical database for recruit survival probabilities. This FY 1978-1984 base includes accession and monthly survival information for non-prior service recruits by accession program, gender, shipment mode, educational category, mental group, and age. An important finding is that for recruits who are otherwise identical, survival is worse if they are shipped within the month they signed their initial contract.