Military Occupational Specialties: Change and Consolidation
Sunday, 11. July 2010
Product Description
Over the past several years, the military Services have reduced theirforces substantially. Military skill groups have been consolidated beforeand during that reduction. Such consolidations can benefit organizations.As a result of visits to military units and anecdotal reports from thefield, some members of Congress became concerned that the skillconsolidations were eroding readiness and expressed a particular concernabout maintenance skills in two Services. The Office of the Secretary ofDefense asked RAND to determine the extent of the consolidations and theireffects on readiness. On the basis of the indicators selected from ourframework, we found no evidence of deleterious effect of consolidation onreadiness after a two year period of transition. The experience andavailability of personnel in consolidated MOCs are comparable with thosefor other maintenance MOCs. The data for qualification are less clear.However, the Services’ procedures for these consolidations are clearlyunderstood, and these procedures very likely help smooth the transitions.