Assessing the Career Mobility of U.S. Army Officers: 1950-1974.

OCCUPATIONAL mobility; MILITARY education; ARMY officers; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; STATISTICAL sampling; HYPOTHESIS; UNITED States Army officers; UNITED States armed forces

The article focuses on a study undertaken to know about the career mobility processes involving officers in the U.S. Army. Different issues are discussed in the article like, whether the officers at service academies have higher rate of mobility than officers commissioned from other sources, and also the factors that might affect the career mobility process apart from academy education are addressed. Techniques with several variables were used to value the hypothesis test with a sample of the on active duty Army officers of the U.S. during the period 1950-1974.