Ebook: Low Aptitude Men in the Military: Who Profits, Who Pays?

"This book recounts two important periods for military manpower—Project 100,000 and the ASVAB Misnorming—when low-aptitude personnel were admitted into the military in substantial numbers. These are times the Services might like to forget, because troop quality suffered. For others, these periods represent important large-scale social welfare efforts of the modern military. This book analyzes what happened before,during, and, for the first time, after Project 100,000 and the Misnorming.It describes what became of the low-aptitude military veterans a decade or two later. The implications and reactions to these periods are necessarily drawn by blending fact and innuendo.
The authors, Janice H. Laurence and Peter F. Ramsberger, are both Senior Scientists with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). Both have a decade of experience in conducting military manpower and training research. Having recently completed a study of the long-term economic and social effects of Project 100,000 and the Misnorming, the authors have amassed an extensive collection of data, reports, memoranda, and notes from interviews and informal conversations about low-aptitude personnel and the military. They have synthesized this information into six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces these periods and provides a context for continuing interest in them. Chapters 2 and 3 chronicle Project 100,000 and the Misnorming, respectively. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the methodology and results of a recent look into the lives of the participants and compares their well-being with low-aptitude nonveterans. Finally, Chapter 6 discusses the aftermath and the lessons learned from Project 100,000 and the ASVAB Misnorming."

"This book offers compelling evidence that efforts, although well-intended, to use the services as social welfare agents of change were misguided efforts of convenience. This excellent book will help you appreciate these new projections."-Military Review