Impacts of Size, Composition and Compactness of the Delayed Entry Pool on Enlistment Contract Production: Efficient Allocation of Recruiting Expenditures and Optimal DEP (Delayed Entry Program) Management

摘要

Each of the branches of the Armed Services allows a recruit to delay his shipping date for up to a year from the time he signs a contract. The Delayed Entry pool consists of those recruits who choose to delay more than a month. The key issues addressed in this research have to do with: the size and the makeup of dep (i.e. the quality mix) on contract production of various types; the compactness of dep or how dep is distributed over time (i.e. the schedule which converts dep into accessions); and how dep resources compare to the impacts of other resources. The efforts is also concerned with how to tradeoff advertising, recruiters and support cost in order to meet a given mix and level of contracts in a given recruiting environment at minimum total cost. Hence it bears on the important issue as to the cost to the country of varying quality. One of the other key conclusions is that the overall dep levels were too low in FY86 and should be increased at least 29% in order to gain the most productivity from dep.