Subspecialty Utilization in the Navy: A Longitudinal Analysis of UnrestrictedLine Officers Who Graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School

摘要

This thesis focuses on a cohort of unrestricted line (URL) officers who graduatedfrom the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in 1985 through 1991. The thesis begins with a description of the officers and their subspecialty codes. Patterns of subspecialty utilization are then analyzed by rank, designator, and gender. Results show that the subspecialty utilization rate (as of 1991) for the cohort is 82.4 percent; and the utilization rate for those with degrees from the Department of Administrative Sciences is 85.5 percent. Most officers were Commanders (54.6 percent) at the time of the study, and 87.1 percent were in compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) guidelines for utilization. Surface warfare officers accounted for 41.5 percent of the 1985 cohort; and 75.4 percent met the DoD utilization guidelines. The cohort consisted mostly of males (85.9 percent), 80.7 percent of whom were utilized in compliance with DoD guidelines. Subspecialty utilization, Graduate education, Unrestricted line officers, Naval Postgraduate School.