Unauthorized Absenteeism in the United States Marine Corps
75Jun_Jenkins_redacted.pdf (7.487Mb)Abstract
This research looked at absenteeism on a Corps-wide basis to determine the extent of recidivism and man-days lost to the Marine Corps as a result of unauthorized absenteeism. The personnel records for absentees contained in the Marine Corps' Transaction Retrieval System files were analyzed using computer programming. It was found that there were 60,120 incidents of unauthorized absence (UA) reported during the Calendar Year 1974. This number includes a count of 6,799 incidents which were for a period of less than 24 hours and 12,393 incidents of desertion. The recidivism rate was found to be approximately 40.5 percent with 13,966 Marines as repeat offenders who were responsible for 39,630 incidents of UA. The Marine Corps also lost 2,230,033 man-days of service as a direct result of unauthorized absenteeism initiated during 1974. In addition, demographic factors were examined, in a preliminary way, for their possible relationship to absenteeism.
Rights
Upon consultation with NPS faculty, the School has determined that this thesis may be downgraded to its original distribution statement and released to the public effective April 11, 2012.This 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.
Collections
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Causes and cures of unauthorized absenteeism in the Navy
(Leland Stanford Junior University, 1950);The purpose of this study was to examine the causes of unauthorized absenteeism among the enlisted personnel of the postwar U.S. Navy, and, on the basis of these findings, to determine some measures which appeared to be ... -
Acts of atrocity effects on public opinion support during war or conflict
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007-12);Acts of atrocity are an unfortunate, yet recurring theme of warfare. Committed by both professional and unprofessional militaries alike, these acts flagrantly violate common standards of competence, morality, ethics, and ... -
Correlation analysis of fleet information warfare center network incidents
(2001-09);The Navy's Intrusion Detection process is currently reactive in nature. It is designed and programmed to detect and provide alerts to the Fleet Information Warfare Center (FlWC) of suspicious network activity while it is ...
