Who Stays and Who Leaves? Identifying Successful Navy Recruits

Abstract : This research memorandum examines the relationship between recruit characteristics and recruit success. The analysis uses three related measures of recruit performance and several recruit characteristics obtained from enlistment applications to determine the characteristics of recruits who are more likely to be successful. Indexes of recruit-success propensity for recruits with different characteristics are calculated for each of the three performance measures. Keywords: Naval personnel, Personnel, Retention, Recruits, Enlisted personnel, Attrition, Performance(Human), DEP(Delayed Entry Program), Aptitude tests, Regression analysis. (sdw)