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Hentschel, Timothy Robert. "United States Army organizational transformation during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and its impact on the Army Officer Corps." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Vuic, Kara Dixon. ""Officer. Nurse. Woman." defining gender in the United States Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215177.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1503. Adviser: Michael McGerr. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed April 12, 2007)."

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Whiteker, James S., Steven A. Sablan, Jason A. Hamilton, James S. Whiteker, Steven A. Sablan, and Jason A. Hamilton. "Logistical impact study of photovoltaic power converter technology to the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9917.

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The purpose of this MBA Project was to analyze the logistical and fiscal impact of replacing selected disposable batteries with rechargeable batteries and photovoltaic power converter chargers within Army and Marine Corps infantry battalions. This project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance XVIII Airborne Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, Fleet Numerical, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The goal of this project was to identify how this new technology could be incorporated into current combat gear and what impact such an incorporation of the technology would have in decreasing the infantryman's combat load, reducing expenditures on batteries, and relieving the overall logistical burden for the subject services.
The purpose of this MBA Project was to analyze the logistical and fiscal impact of replacing selected disposable batteries with rechargeable batteries and photovoltaic power converter chargers within Army and Marine Corps infantry battalions. This project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance XVIII Airborne Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, Fleet Numerical, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The goal of this project was to identify how this new technology could be incorporated into current combat gear and what impact such an incorporation of the technology would have in decreasing the infantryman's combat load, reducing expenditures on batteries, and relieving the overall logistical burden for the subject services.

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Belcher, Michael F. "Comparative analysis of United States Army and Marine Corps human systems integration methodologies." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA297648.

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Faughnan, Michael J. "You're in the Army now: The Students' Army Training Corps at selected Virginia universities in 1918." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154061.

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Horn, Carl John. "Military innovation and the helicopter : a comparison of development in the United States Army and Marine Corps, 1945-1965 /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1240844876.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 356 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Siciliano, Peg Poeschl. "The 6669th Women's Army Corps Headquarters Platoon: Path Breakers in the Modern Military." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625473.

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Groomes, Joshua Benjamin. "The Impact of the United States Army Nurses Corps on the United States Army Fatality Rate in the Mediterranean and European Theater of Operations during World War II." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3980.

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World War II was the most devastating war in human history in terms of loss of life. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, plunged the United States into war. Less than seven thousand military nurses were on active duty at the time of the attack. By the end of the war, there were over fifty-thousand active-duty nurses. The army nurses performed under fire in field and evacuation hospitals, on hospital trains and ships, and as flight nurses on medical evacuation transport aircraft. The skill and dedication of the Army Nurses Corps insured a 95% survival rate for the wounded soldiers who received medical care in a field or evacuation hospital. Two hundred and one nurses lost their lives during World War II and sixty-seven nurses were captured and held as prisoners of war. Sixteen hundred medals, citations and commendations attest to the nurses’ courage and dedication.

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Horn, Carl J. III. "Military innovation and the helicopter: a comparison of development in the United States army and marine corps, 1945-1965." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1240844876.

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Horn, Carl John. "Military innovation and the helicopter : a comparison of development in the United States Army and Marine Corps, 1945-1953 /." Connect to resource, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1218653639.

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Dominguez, Joe Manuel. "Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) handbook for high school students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1715.

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Holtz, Pamela M. "Personality and Mental Health Attitudes Among US Army ROTC Cadets." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700103/.

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With the current military mental health crisis, it is important to understand the role of the leader in military mental health. First, the impact of military leader behaviors on the well-being of military personnel is reviewed. Next, the role of leader attitudes as a precursor to leader behaviors is discussed. The relation of leader behaviors to leader personality using the NEO Five Factor Model (FFM) is reviewed, as well as the relation of prejudicial attitudes to the NEO FFM personality factors. A research project is described that attempted to draw these concepts together, assessing the NEO FFM personality dimensions and mental health attitudes of US Army ROTC cadets, the future leaders of the US Army. No significant relations were observed between NEO FFM personality traits and mental health attitudes, even after controlling for Impression Management. Also, the predicted positive correlation between positive mental health attitudes and Impression Management was not found. These results suggest that more research and more refined measures are needed in the area of leader attitudes toward soldier mental health problems, and how those attitudes might impact the soldiers.

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Landrum, Hollis T. "An Analysis of the Ability of an Instrument to Measure Quality of Library Service and Library Success." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2245/.

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This study consisted of an examination of how service quality should be measured within libraries and how library service quality relates to library success. A modified version of the SERVQUAL instrument was evaluated to determine how effectively it measures library service quality. Instruments designed to measure information center success and information system success were evaluated to determine how effectively they measure library success and how they relate to SERVQUAL. A model of library success was developed to examine how library service quality relates to other variables associated with library success. Responses from 385 end users at two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers libraries were obtained through a mail survey. Results indicate that library service quality is best measured with a performance-based version of SERVQUAL, and that measuring importance may be as critical as measuring expectations for management purposes. Results also indicate that library service quality is an important factor in library success and that library success is best measured with a combination of SERVQUAL and library success instruments. The findings have implications for the development of new instruments to more effectively measure library service quality and library success as well as for the development of new models of library service quality and library success.

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Horn, Carl John III. "Military Innovation and the Helicopter: A Comparison of Development in the United States Army and Marine Corps, 1945-1953." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218653639.

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Sills, Rebekah S. Ferdon Douglas Robert. "'We Shall Not Fail Freedom' Oveta Culp Hobby's role in the formation and implementation of the Women's Army Corps /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5089.

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Reinke, Cecil Eugene. "The Relocation of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Policy Implementation Study." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1379.

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This is a policy implementation case study. The case is the relocation of the Town of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of engineers. Three questions are addressed in this study. One, did the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in relocating the Town, accomplish what was intended to be accomplished? Two, how and why were Federal policies applicable to the relocation of this town changed during the implementation process? Three, what can the North Bonneville experience contribute to existent knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of policy implementation? The principal precepts for policy implementation promoted by this study of the relocation of the Town of North Bonneville, Washington, are as follows: (1) Implementing agencies must recognize and consider what they have to do or may have to do to accomplish what they are intended to accomplish,not merely what they want to do or expect to do. Potential impediments to implementation that are unrecognized and unconsidered may fail to develop, but unless addressed problems cannot be solved. (2) Implementing agencies must expeditiously study and understand the policies that they are assigned to implement. Failure of understanding presents the appearance of ambiquity; indeed, even the clearest policy is effectively ambiquous if it is not understood. (3) Implementing agencies must promptly and plainly explain the policies they are charged with implementing to affected and interested persons or groups. Failure to explain leaves affected and interested persons or groups to form their own expectations of what the policy is, which expectations if erroneous may be difficult to dislodge. (4) Implementing agencies must attend that once a policy is stated and explained all subsequent actions are consistent with the policy as stated and that any action that may appear to constitute a deviation is adequately explained. Otherwise the credibility of the agency and of the policy being implemented by the agency is undermined.

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Baggett, Kimberley Anne. "Assessment of Section 404 Wetland Mitigation Compliance and No-Net-Loss in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/844.

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The United States Corps of Engineers is a federal agency responsible for regulating impacts to wetlands. Permit applications requesting authorization to impact wetlands are reviewed using a three step sequence: avoidance, minimization and compensatory mitigation. A national goal of no net loss of wetland acreage and function in compensatory mitigation has been recommended since 1987.Thirty Norfolk District projects requiring compensatory wetland mitigation in the permit years 1996-1998 were randomly selected for field review. The results showed that 10% of the project were never initiated or completed. Another 19% of the projects showed a net loss of acreage. However, many projects exceeded their required mitigation acreage. The mitigation types included creation/restoration (18 permits), commercial mitigation bank (3 permits), and an in-lieu fee trust fund (9 permits). Overall 1.76 acres were mitigated for every acre of wetland impacted. Creation/restoration projects had the highest ratio (2 acres mitigated for every acre impacted and the mitigation bank realized 1.82 acres for every acre impacted. Therefore, this study indicated that the Norfolk District is gaining more than 1 acre of wetland mitigation for every acre impacted, thus meeting the goal of no net loss of wetland acreage.

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Gottfried, Corbett S. "U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4960.

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The Military Intelligence Division (MID) was the U.S. Army's intelligence agency that reported to the Chief of Staff within the War Department. During the years 1917- 1927, the MID routinely conducted surveillance of Mexico, including: espionage, mail censorship, radio intercepts, intelligence gathering, and development of plans for the invasion of Mexico. This study utilizes a tripartite model to evaluate the production and analysis of military "intelligence" by the MID in Mexico during the period 1917-1927. First, the organization and development of the Military Intelligence Division from its origins in 1885 through the year 1927 is explored with sections on institutional history and objects of investigation. Second, a quantitative analysis of intelligence documents identifies the focus and priorities of the MID in Mexico. Third, a textual analysis of intelligence documents makes use of a cross-cultural framework to demonstrate the prevailing attitudes, perspectives and world views of the MID toward the Mexican state and its peoples. The thesis question as to whether the U.S. Military Intelligence Division created an accurate and complete picture of "reality" of Mexico is answered in the negative. The MID perspective was colored by cultural bias, ignorance, and misunderstanding. Ultimately, the MID failed to grasp the reality of Mexico because it failed to ask the right questions. It seriously misunderstood the nature of Mexico and its peoples, especially in its relationship with the United States .. The particular model developed for this study lends itself to the possibility of further research in the area of international history and cross-cultural studies. The use of multiple analysis techniques provides a more comprehensive picture of the various factors involved that influence historical events.

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Hess, Lucinda Houser. "Male Army Nurses: The Impact of the Vietnam War on Their Professional and Personal Lives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2574/.

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As American involvement in Vietnam escalated in the 1960s, the military's need for medical personnel rose as well. A shortage of qualified nurses in the United States coupled with the requirements of providing adequate troops abroad meant increased opportunity for male nurses. To meet the needs of Army personnel, the Army Nurse Corps actively recruited men, a segment of the nursing population that had previously faced daunting restrictions in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC). Amidst mounting tension, the Army Student Nurse Program began accepting men and provided educational funding and support. Additionally, Congress extended commissions in the Regular Army to previously excluded male nurses. Men answered the call and actively took advantage of the new opportunities afforded them by the demands of war. They entered the educational programs and committed to serve their country through the ANC. Once admitted to the corps, a large percentage of male nurses served in Vietnam. Their tours of duty proved invaluable for training in trauma medicine. Further, these men experienced personal and professional growth that they never would have received in the civilian world. They gained confidence in their skills and worked with wounds and diseases seldom seen at home. For many, the opportunities created by the war led to a career in military medicine and meant the chance to seek additional training after nursing school, often specialized training. Relying heavily on oral histories and the archives of the Army Nurse Corps, this study examined the role these nurses played in entrenching men as a vital part of the ANC.

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Pruitt, Crayton. "Water levels effects on overall customer satisfaction a case study of adjacent landowners on the United States Army Corps of Engineers-Lake Hartwell /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1219852162/.

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Bilger, Kristie A. "The Women's Army Corps and Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service a fashioning of American womanhood and citizenship /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1256571475.

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Nance, William Stuart. "Forgotten Glory - Us Corps Cavalry in the ETO." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500140/.

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The American military experience in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War is one of the most heavily documented topics in modern historiography. However, within this plethora of scholarship, very little has been written on the contributions of the American corps cavalry to the operational success of the Allied forces. The 13 mechanized cavalry groups deployed by the U.S. Army served in a variety of roles, conducting screens, counter-reconnaissance, as well as a number of other associated security missions for their parent corps and armies. Although unheralded, these groups made substantial and war-altering impacts for the U.S. Army.

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Viall, Steven A. ""In order to accomplish the mission" a case study of the culture and culture training in the Ball State Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) in 2007 /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2008. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/389.

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Deupree, William Erik. "Innovation on a budget the development of military technology during the interwar period, 1919-1939." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4934.

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This thesis investigates the progress of technological development during the interwar period of 1919 to 1939. The interwar period was a time of slashed military budgets and isolationist policies. However, despite political, financial, and organizational handicaps, each branch of the military made significant progress in the development of military technology, and the air corps and navy achieved significantly better results. The reason these two branches were able succeed was through a combination of organizational policy and the development of an overarching goal for their respective branch. Within this thesis, I investigated each of the major military branches during the interwar period, specifically the United States Army, Army Air Corps, and Navy. The air corps is considered a separate branch despite being a segment of the army due to its different strategic goal and its growing independence during the interwar period. In my research I found that the army made by far the least technological progress, but did make significant strides in terms of the development of individual components for larger projects. For example, the army developed the M1 rifle and state-of-the-art shock absorbers for tanks. The air corps succeeded in transforming from a small army auxiliary made up of wood-and-fabric biplanes into a largely independent branch of the military made up of all-metal monoplane bombers. The navy developed the aircraft carrier and aircraft to accompany the new ships, in addition to making substantial upgrades to existing ships. These upgrades included strengthening ships against torpedo attacks, making engines more efficient, and adding anti-aircraft guns to the ships' arsenals.
ID: 030422712; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-105).
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Phillips, Bradley W. "Beyond the space cadre." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA490929.

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Rutherford, Amanda. "Recruiting a lady: the depiction of the Women's Army Corps /." 2009. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/46/.

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Pierce, James G. "Organizational culture and professionalism : an assessment of the professional culture of the U.S. Army Senior Level Officer Corps /." 2004. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-675/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
Includes vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-202). Also available via internet from the Penn State electronic dissertation database. Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Address as of 1/22/2007: http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-675/index.html

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Steele, Jay D., and Stephen L. Mehay. "Socioeconomic factors and personal characteristics affecting the retention of officers in the United States Army and United States Marine Corps." Thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/22482.

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Watson, Samuel Johnston. "Professionalism, social attitudes, and civil-military accountability in the United States Army Officer Corps, 1815-1846." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16973.

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This dissertation explores connections between occupation, class, and state formation, employing comparative and sociological perspectives previously neglected by historians of this topic in order to locate the officer corps more firmly in its social and cultural context. Officers were socialized in responsibility, gentility, and nationalism, closely connected attitudes which encouraged subordination to civilian political control. The ultimate source of this accountability was employment by the nation-state, which provided security in an increasingly unstable society. Officers responded by stressing order and national sovereignty in their peacekeeping duties in the nation's borderlands. Socialization and self-interest also made Jacksonian-era officers much less bellicose than they had been before 1820, which helped to keep the nation out of war with Britain during crises along the Canadian border, while the officer corps dutifully executed policies many of its members disagreed with or found distasteful, like Indian removal or the occupation of Texas. In the process, conflicts with local settlers and authorities reinforced officers' allegiance to the federal government. Army organization and caste structure were ultimately shaped more by subjective social influences like ideals of gentility and organizational phenomena like bureaucracy and careerism than by the needs of military function per se. This thesis provides a study of officers' mentalite, worldview, and motivation, particularly the nuances and paradoxes of individualism and gentility manifested in their balancing of ambition and security through organizational careers and conflict. These behaviours can help historians understand the changing occupational and cultural construction of elite status and the reconstitution of personal ambition and community obligation in nineteenth-century America. The army officer corps was the first national managerial class in the United States, and its experiences anticipated the broader trends toward translocal functional organization and specialization in transferal functional organization and specialization in American society and culture after mid-century. This thesis also examines the construction of military expertise in social, cultural, and institutional context, questioning its content and objectives in new ways, and suggests that American military expertise was primarily administrative and logistical rather than tactical or strategic. This bureaucratic expertise reflected a successful adjustment to the problems of scale, scope, and complexity encountered by the nation's largest organization, reinforcing the army's sense of political accountability and preparing it to effectively manage the mass armies of the Civil War. As a whole, this dissertation demonstrates the social construction of military professionalism and the decisive role of the state therein, providing a paradigm of bureaucratization, social and institutional consolidation, and class and state formation in nineteenth-century America.

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Jackson, Matthew S. "Beliefs about psychological services held by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps population." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1656588.

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Past research has shown that members of the military have less favorable beliefs regarding mental health services. To date, no known research has been conducted examining the beliefs about psychological services of students enrolled in ROTC. 136 undergraduate students participated in a study in which the beliefs about psychological services of students in a ROTC program were compared with students in the general college population. Participants completed the Beliefs About Psychological Services (BAPS) scale online. This scale consisted of three subscales that were analyzed independently; Expertness, Stigma Tolerance, and Intent. Results showed that the main effect of ROTC participation on all three subscales of BAPS was significant at the p ≤ 0.005 level. These results suggested that students enrolled in ROTC may have less favorable beliefs about psychological services than students in the general college population. Limitations of the study were discussed and directions for future research include: replication of the findings of this study, the use of a larger and more diverse sample, and the development of methods to improve ROTC students beliefs about psychological services in order to increase the chances of these individuals seeking necessary mental health treatment.
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Gallo, Andrew A. "Understanding Military Doctrinal Change During Peacetime." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8709HB9.

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This study examines processes of military doctrinal change during periods of peace. Given the conventional wisdom of hidebound bureaucratic military organizations, why do these organizations innovate doctrinally? Rather than conduct competitive hypothesis testing between two or more theories of military innovation or pursue a heretofore undiscovered monocausal theory, I develop and test a theoretical framework that synthesizes more than one approach to military doctrinal innovation. I use this framework to conduct a structured, focused, case-study comparison of two military organizations - the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps - from the post-World War II period until 2001. The study yields seven findings. First, the systemic causes of military doctrinal innovation are best described by balance of threat theory. Second, contrary to the existing literature, civilian intervention is not a necessary or sufficient cause of doctrinal innovation. Third, militaries consistently strive to establish a monopoly over warfare in a particular jurisdictional domain. Fourth, the frequency of military doctrinal change is a function of the complexity of the strategic problem that doctrine is designed to solve. Fifth, the complexity of the cases studied supports the argument that monocausal explanations fail to account for the interaction of multiple variables that affect doctrinal innovation. Sixth, military doctrinal innovation during peacetime is not anomalous because military organizations constantly revise their theories of victory as threats change in the external environment. Finally, the existence of doctrinal institutions creates a norm for a reliance on military doctrine.

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Baggett, Kimberly Anne. "Assessment of Section 404 wetland mitigation compliance and no-net-loss in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District /." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1503.

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Thesis (M.U.R.P.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006.
Prepared for: Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning. Certificate of approval page dated May 12, 2006. Bibliography: leaves 48-53. Also available online via the Internet.

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