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High-Quality Senior Marine Corps Officers: How Many Stay Beyond 20 Years of Service?

PEMD-85-1 Published: Nov 13, 1984. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 1984.
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GAO studied the quality of U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonels who retired at the end of 20 years of service and those who remained in the service for consideration for promotion by a colonel selection board to determine whether: (1) the best qualified lieutenant colonels left the service before being considered for promotion to colonel; and (2) quality and retention were differentiated by professional or academic education, military occupational specialty, years of military service, or how close the candidate was to colonel selection review.

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