A collection of articles on recreation for military personnel discusses: (1) cooperation of military and civilian recreational programs; (2) recreation for personnel on sea duty; (3) recreation at Camp Casey (Korea); (4) Information, Tickets, and Tours (ITT) programs; (5) intramural programs; (6) careers in military recreation; and (7) Air Force…

Since World War II, the USO has developed a new image and created a new "world of services" everywhere. USO programs help military personnel to discover new skills and interests and unveil personal resources which carry lifetime value. (JN)

Describes Camp Adventure, a recreation program for children of U.S. military personnel, as an example of contracted youth services. Discusses advantages of contracting, such as management specialization, unique resources, development of standards for contract performance, organizational flexibility, and mutual commitment of each party to the…

Examines factors predisposing to enlistment in the all-volunteer armed forces, using data from a 1971 sample of over 2,000 Houston (Texas) seventh graders, with followups in 1980 and 1988. Finds that volunteers are more likely to have experienced limited peer acceptance and some disruption of socioemotional ties and that they are amenable to…

American public schools are in clear need of real school reform centered on leadership style and organizational structure. To help bring about such reform, lessons taught by the new sciences and through the lens of critical theory need to be considered. At the beginning of the Industrial Age, businesses organized their burgeoning systems using…

Factors that may affect public support or opposition to U.S. military intervention in humanitarian crises around the world are examined to determine the impact of foreign policy frames on individual risk propensity. The source of the foreign policy frames, type of humanitarian crisis, location of the crisis and race/ethnicity/religion of the…

In an article in 2004 on Islamist movements in Iraq, "Social Education" pointed out that Iraq might be headed toward a juncture from which "one road leads to sectarian and ethnic strife and the other to the establishment of a new Islamic republic in the Middle East." The events of 2005 propelled Iraq further in that direction.…

The text of a bill to provide a statutory charter for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and to establish a personnel system for civilian faculty, and the text of hearings on that legislation, are presented. The statements of the following individuals are included: Nicholas Mavroules, chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee…

This report examines both the impact of Operation Desert Shield/Storm on the families of active duty service members who were deployed to the Persian Gulf region, and the effectiveness of the Air Force's family support systems in meeting family and mission needs. The Air Force's Family Matters Office sponsored this study in order to identify the…

Chartered in April 1972, the Community College of the Air Force offers a Career Education Certificate (CEC), equivalent to an associate degree, combining technical, managerial and general education to produce a qualified mid-level manager competent in a particular technical specialty. This program description includes rank-age profile of the first…

The history of the curriculum of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, founded in 1920, is presented. It includes not only the progressive stages through which it evolved in almost seven decades, but also some history of the founding of the Marine Corps educational system, the shift in the mission of this service in the 1930s, and other…

To justify its labor force quality requirements, the Army sought to demonstrate an empirical link between Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores and soldier performance. The first data set contained written and hands-on tests on several weapons systems from the Army's training schools. The second data set used the Skill Qualifications Tests…

As requested, the General Accounting Office conducted a survey in Feburary 1988 of military installations with child development centers in the continental United States. It was found that the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps had a combined capacity to serve about 62,000 children at one time at the 215 installations responding. This figure…