Sending officers to graduate schools is costly to the services. While officers incur specific service requirements in return, does that recoup the investment? The authors found that, in the U.S. Navy, breaking even financially is not always realistic. But the skills and general knowledge that officers gain in the process extend the value of their degrees beyond their majors, particularly in careers leading to flag rank.

Evaluating Navy's Funded Graduate Education Program: A Return-on-Investment Framework

Business & Money

Thie, Harry J.

Krull, Heather

Kamarck, Kristy N.

Aldeson, Marisa

Job Hunting & Careers

RAND Corporation

The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that, by promoting patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement, will help integrate medical planning across treatment and evacuation functions, across the increasing levels of care, and across the different military services.

Improving Joint Expeditionary Medical Planning Tools Based on a Patient Flow Approach (Technical Report)

Amouzegar, Mahyar A.

Lachman, Beth E.

Chan, Edward W.

Costello, Rachel

Snyder, Don

LaTourrette, Tom

Ritschard, Hans V.

Guermonprez, D. Scott

Management & Leadership

Understanding the current quality of care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression delivered to service members is an important step toward improving care across the Military Health System (MHS). This report describes the characteristics of active-component service members who received care for PTSD or depression through the MHS and assesses the quality of care received using quality measures derived from administrative data.

Quality of Care for PTSD and Depression in the Military Health System: Phase I Report

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pincus, Harold Alan

Sloss, Elizabeth M.

Hepner, Kimberly A.

Roth, Carol P.

Paddock, Susan M.

Moen, Shaela

Timmer, Martha J.

Mental Health

The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act required a federally funded research and development center to evaluate the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety, which administers the Civilian Marksmanship Program, in order to assess potential future transfers of excess firearms to the Corporation. This report summarizes the RAND Arroyo Center evaluation, with analyses of the discrete tasks in the legislative language.

An Evaluation of the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety

History

Lee, Karen

Mayberry, Paul W.

Hastings, Jaime L.

Briscombe, Brian

Hansen, Michael L.

Kilambi, Vikram

Ziegler, Michelle D.

Military

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policies for medically evaluating service members have changed considerably since 2001, with major changes to the disability evaluation system beginning in 2007. Simultaneously, DoD also implemented new policies in response to the ?signature injuries? of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The authors review these concurrent developments.

Evolution of Department of Defense Disability Evaluation and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview of Policy Changes, 2001-2018

Simmons, Molly M.

Farmer, Carrie M.

Cherney, Samantha

The joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Disability Evaluation System is the process by which DoD determines fitness for duty and separation or retirement because of disability. In this report, the authors evaluate four hypothetical alternative DoD disability compensation approaches that would support a simpler disability evaluation process by reducing reliance on disability ratings.

U.S. Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation Approach

Asch, Beth J.

Mattock, Michael G.

Ligor, Douglas C.

Rennane, Stephanie

Dworsky, Michael

Kempf, Jonas

Medical Books

The U.S. Army is introducing a new fitness test for the first time in more than 40 years. The six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) is designed to (1) ensure soldiers are ready to perform combat tasks, (2) reduce preventable injuries, and (3) promote a culture of fitness throughout the Army. In this report, the authors conduct a review of the ACFT and provide recommendations to support the Army's implementation decisions.

Independent Review of the Army Combat Fitness Test: Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations

Engineering & Transportation

Simpson, Mark

Panis, Christina

Hardison, Chaitra M.

Setodji, Claude Messan

Madison, Rodger

Avriette, Mary

Wong, Jacqueline

Totten, Mark E.

Engineering

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