Basic Training: Services Using a Variety of Approaches to Gender Integration
NSIAD-96-153
Published: Jun 10, 1996. Publicly Released: Jun 10, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the services' enlisted basic training to determine the: (1) extent to which the services conduct gender-integrated basic training; and (2) changes that the services made to accommodate gender-integrated training.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of Defense | To evaluate the effectiveness of each service's approach to the integration of recruit training, the Secretary of Defense should direct the services to retain and analyze comparative performance data for men and women in single-gender and gender-integrated training units. |
The Department of Defense instructed each of the services to retain and analyze comparative data on the performance of men and women in single-gender and gender-integrated training over a 1-year period to be completed in fiscal year 1999. The services apparently never collected this data. The report of the Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues stated that it was told that no such data exists and each service reported that it had no current or planned efforts to study gender-integrated training.
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Comparative analysisCost analysisEnlisted personnelMilitary facilitiesMilitary recruitingMilitary trainingWomenU.S. ArmyBasic trainingStudents