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03773 - (A2794031]
Urgent Need for Continued Improvements in Enlisted Career Force
Management. FPCD-77-42; B-146890. September 29, 1977. Released
October 1, 1977. 57 pp. + 4 appendices (31 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Ccmptroller Genera2.
Issue Area: Personnel Maragement and Compensation (300).
Contact: Federal Personilel and Compensation Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Deeense -
Military (except procurement & contracts) (051).
Organizraticn Concerned: Department cf the Arp)j Department of
Defense- Department of the Navy; Department of the Air
Force.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Arred Ser7ices;
Senate Ccmmittee on Armed Services; Congress.
Authority: DOD Directive 1304.20.
Car-:ent enlisted career personnel imbalances, caused by
past management practices, are very costly. On June 30, 1976,
the armed service-< bad about 28,0CC more career enlisted
personnel than called for in their enlisted force management
plans. Findings/Conclusions: Enlisted force management plans
specify the objectives of tho services' enlisted1 management
services. Years of service is the key to plann-4n4 object4.va
career forces, a prcjection of what the servic. eecides it
needs in the wiy of career personnel. The services plan to
achieve their objective career forces in 7 c 10 years. The 7 to
10 year lag is unnecessary ayxd costly. Reccm,,nrlations: The
Secretary of Defense should: sstab3ish firm management policies
which will bring the number of enlisted career personnel quickly
into agreement with the objective force arM prevent careerists
in excess of requirements from serving bey)nd 20 years; develop
a system of automated programs which will permit evaluation of
the services' program by individual occupational specialty;
strengthen the Enlisted ManagemeDt Systems Directorate so it can
evaluate the services' enlisted grade requirements and
long-range plans; establish a standardized metbcdology for
determining costs of objective forces, including costs of
changing from the present to the objective ferce; and establish,
in conjunction with the services, a system comparable to the
Navy's for uniform defense cost-benefit studies. The Congress
should enact legislatio± that authorizes readjustment pay for
career enlisted personnel who are involuntarily discharged
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