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Recruiting Malpractice: Extent, Causes, and Potentials for Improvement

FPCD-81-34 Published: Jul 20, 1981. Publicly Released: Jul 20, 1981.
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Highlights

A survey was conducted of the armed forces recruiting personnel in all services, including active, National Guard, and Reserve. The results indicate the perceptions of recruiters, noncommissioned officer supervisors, and commanding officers on: the extent of malpractice within the respective service recruiting programs; possible causes for these actions; and probable corrective actions.

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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should use the survey results in making future oversight reviews.
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should use the results of GAO work to assess actions the services have taken to correct recruiting malpractice.
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the services to periodically measure, on an anonymous basis, the incidents and causes of recruiting malpractice, using the current GAO database as a baseline.
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