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Selecting recruits who will complete their term of enlistment is very important for both maintaining Army readiness and minimizing cost. This report describes a recruit selection tool that estimates prospective outcomes and costs for different combinations of recruits' cognitive, noncognitive, demographic, physical, and behavioral attributes. The tool assesses the effects of multiple, simultaneous changes in the selection of prospects on losses during the first term, on the incidence of certain adverse personnel actions, and on specific reasons for early separation from the Army. This enables the Army to identify potential changes to selection of youth based on a variety of attributes in order to expand supply smartly or to decrease the rates of targeted adverse outcomes, and to strategically examine trade-offs in outcomes and costs associated with changes in the characteristics of the recruit cohort.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Research Approach for Initial Phase of Work
Chapter Three
Construction of Recruit Characteristic Selection Tool and Simulation of Effects of Changes in Recruit Characteristics
Chapter Four
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A
Supplemental Analyses
Appendix B
Recruit Selection Tool Illustrations
Appendix C
Use of Recruit Selection Tool
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