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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013) : The Office, [1998]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)40895932 Subject: Military education -- United States -- Costs. Excerpt: ... B-280041 CINC deployment rates. As a result, officials from the Joint Staff, s, service headquarters, and service components at the five regional commands could not provide complete information on the total number of days consumed by all deployments, including those associated with CJCS exercises. Without this data, the program's impact on personnel deployment rates cannot be precisely determined. The Joint Staff has generally had difficulty measuring personnel The Joint Staff Has deployments among the military services. We reported in April 1996 that it Difficulty Measuring is difficult to determine the actual time that either military personnel or Deployment Rates 7 units are deployed. Our report recommended that the Secretary of Defense ( 1 ) establish a-wide definition of deployment; ( 2 ) state DOD whether each service should have a goal, policy, or regulation stipulating the maximum amount of time units and personnel may be deployed; and ( 3 ) define the minimum data on deployments that each service must DOD collect and maintain. agreed to further pursue initiatives - many which were noted in our report - to enhance its ability to manage DOD deployments. Also, in January 1997, forwarded a report to the Chairman, House National Security Committee, on the impact of increased 8 deployments on training, retention, and readiness. As part of that study, the Joint Staff assessed the capabilities of service systems to track personnel deployments. The report noted that, although all the services had systems in place to monitor deployments, each service measured and defined personnel deployment differently. For example, the Army tracks personnel at both the unit and individual level, whereas the Marine Corps and the Navy track personnel only at the unit level. The Air Fo
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