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SOVIET TACTICS FOR WARFARE AT SEA; TWO DECADES OF UPHEAVAL
August 1, 1983
This paper focuses primarily on the development of Soviet views of anti-surface warfare. The period with which the analysis deals begins in the early 1960s and provides the background on how the arrival of nuclear missile weapons changed some basic tenets of Soviet naval tactics.
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BALANCING ACCESSION AND RETENTION: THE AGGREGATE MODEL
August 1, 1983
The model developed for this study is designed to help select the recruit assignment, accession and reenlistment bonus policies that minimize the total cost of meeting LOS-5 requirements.
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SUMMARY OF NAVY ENLISTED SUPPLY STUDY
August 1, 1983
This paper analyzes the supply of nonprior service male high school graduates enlistments to the military services. While each service is considered, the primary focus is on Navy enlistment supply.
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A COMPARISON OF THE PROPHET AND ACOL FORCE PROJECTION MODELS
August 1, 1983
This paper compares the career force projections of the PROPHET and the ACOL models to actual historical experience over the period FY78-FY80.
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Models of Accession and Retention
August 1, 1983
This paper outlines two simple models that integrate accession and first-term retention policies. The first model describes the relation between optimal accession and first-term reenlistment bonus policies when marginal recruiting costs are constant. The second model is that marginal recruiting costs rise as more recruits are obtained.
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An Empirical Analysis of Pay and Navy Enlisted Retention in the AVF: Preliminary Results
August 1, 1983
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between pay and retention during the All Volunteer Force era. The report also derives estimates of the relationship between pay at one decision point and retention at future decision points.
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MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS DERIVATION FOR THE NAVY COMPREHENSIVE COMPENSATION AND SUPPLY STUDY
August 1, 1983
This paper describes the procedures followed to create the Navy Comprehensive Compensation and Supply Study requirements. The report also includes the computer program which was used to determine these requirements.
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A MINIMUM RECRUITING COST FUNCTION FOR MALE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
August 1, 1983
This study derives a cost function which specifies the minimum cost to the Navy of the recruiters and advertising necessary to attract different numbers of non-prior service male recruits who are high school graduates.
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Balancing Accession and Retention: the Disaggregate Model
August 1, 1983
This analysis investigates the savings that could be achieved from using selected reenlistment bonuses to improve the long-run balance between accession and first-term retention in the Navy. It also provides a brief summary of the model used in addressing this issue.
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CONSTRUCTION OF 'TRAINING COST PER GRADUATE' FOR THE NAVY COMPREHENSIVE COMPENSATION AND SUPPLY STUDY
August 1, 1983
This paper describes a procedure for constructing the cost of initial specialized skill training for enlisted graduates of a given quality type in a given rating.
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