Accession Number:

ADA621263

Title:

Assignment Problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: Regional, Culture, and Language Familiarization Program

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Seipel, Petra L.

Report Date:

2013-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

85.0

Abstract:

U.S. Marine Corps recently developed the Regional, Culture, and Language Familiarization Program RCLF, which assigns newly promoted sergeants and commissioned officers to one of the 17 regions established by the RCLF office. As of now, there is no formal process established in assigning Marines to one of the 17 regions. The assignment is done manually and oftentimes, by random allocation without a standard operating procedure. We developed two integer-programming models and a matching algorithm that utilizes top trading cycle and serial dictatorship. These models optimize the assignment based on Marines and USMC preferences. We find that the benchmark integer programing model is the best in terms of assigning most Marines within their top four choices. Regardless, satisfaction rate of any of the three models are higher than the random assignment model.

Descriptors:

• *CULTURE
• *MARINE CORPS
• *MILITARY TRAINING
• ALLOCATIONS
• ENLISTED PERSONNEL
• LANGUAGE
• MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• MODELS
• OFFICER PERSONNEL
• STANDARDS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Humanities and History
• Personnel Management and Labor Relations
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE