Marine thirty-year plan

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dc.contributor.advisorWood, R. Kevin
dc.contributor.advisorButtrey, Samuel E.
dc.contributor.authorEnholm, Jacob C.
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research (OR)
dc.contributor.secondreaderMislick, Gregory K.
dc.dateMarch 2002
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-14T17:47:38Z
dc.date.available2012-03-14T17:47:38Z
dc.date.issued2002-03
dc.description.abstractThe U.S. Marine Corps is in need of a unified enlisted manpower model to guide the recruiting, training, promoting and discharging of an enlisted force of over 153,000 Marines. This thesis develops a set of linear programs (LPs) for this purpose. Each LP optimizes the estimated manpower structure within an occupational field by varying the number of recruits, promotions, and lateral moves over a 30-year time horizon, at a yearly level of detail. The goal is to meet annual force-level targets specified by Headquarters Marine Corps for cohorts defined by occupational specialty, and rank. Estimated attrition rates are key inputs; these are based on Kaplan-Meier estimators for "survival probabilities" computed from Marine Corps data covering 1990-2000. Current force strength data, also required by the LPs, is derived from the Marine Corps database. Average LP solving time is less than thirty minutes on a Pentium IV 2 Ghz personal computer, using the GAMS modeling system and the CPLEX LP solver.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.description.serviceCaptain, United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/marinethirtyyear109456066
dc.format.extentxviii, 100 p. : ill. ;en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/6066
dc.publisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorManpower planningen_US
dc.subject.authorPersonnelen_US
dc.subject.authorOptimizationen_US
dc.subject.authorMArine Corps enlisted strengthen_US
dc.subject.authorManpower attritionen_US
dc.titleMarine thirty-year planen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineOperations Researchen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameM.S. in Operations Researchen_US
etd.verifiednoen_US
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