Accession Number:

ADA235316

Title:

Assessment of Navy Personnel Geographic Stability or 'Homesteading' in the 1980s

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Oct 1989-Mar 1990

Corporate Author:

NAVY PERSONNEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER SAN DIEGO CA

Personal Author(s):

• Blanco, Thomas A.

Report Date:

1991-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

24.0

Abstract:

This report contains a survey of past research and Navy initiatives in the area of personnel geographic stability or homesteading and documents lessons learned on why these initiatives have failed. The report also contains a quantitative assessment of informal homesteading through consecutive seashore rotational assignments and follow-on sea tours in the same geographical area. The report concludes that the regional seashore billet structures for sea- intensive rating, such as boiler technicians and machinists mates, do not support a formal homesteading guarantee program, but that the current Navy distribution and assignment system already provides considerable homesteading opportunity to career sailors home ported in five major fleet concentration areas San Diego, Norfolk, Mayport, Seattle, and Charleston. As of September 1989, informal homesteading seemed to be working better than ever, and the negative aspects of a formal homesteading program would far outweigh any potential gains.

Descriptors:

• *NAVAL PERSONNEL
• BOILERS
• DISTRIBUTION
• NAVY
• CAREERS
• TECHNICIANS
• DOCUMENTS
• ACTIVE DUTY
• PERSONNEL
• OCEANS
• GEOGRAPHIC AREAS
• ROTATION
• SEA BASED
• GEOGRAPHY
• SHORES
• STABILITY
• LESSONS LEARNED

Subject Categories:

• Geography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE