Political Participation and the United States Army Officer Corps

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Crean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
United States Army ◽  
The United States ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
Army Officer Corps

Courage, Careers, and Comrades: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Army Officer Corps

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-58
Author(s):  
Matthew Oyos
Keyword(s):  
United States Army ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Army Officer Corps ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military

Theodore Roosevelt made reform of the U.S. Army Officer Corps a priority during his presidency. He felt compelled to act because of the problems that the army experienced during the war with Spain. As a volunteer soldier, Roosevelt had witnessed the shortcomings of many of the top-ranking officers in meeting the physical and organizational demands of the fighting, but he also acted because he wanted high-minded, intelligent, and physically fit leaders who could inspire his fellow citizens to a greater sense of duty in post-frontier America. Roosevelt's efforts to promote promising army officers to top commands and mandate physical fitness standards would prove disruptive, as he elevated officers out of the normal line of promotion. These practices would, in turn, generate protests in Congress and from within the military. The resulting controversies would cause Roosevelt to fall short of his goals for improving army leadership, roil civil-military relations, and demonstrate his limits as a political leader.

scholarly journals Describing Success by Gender Through the U.S. Army Officer Evaluation System

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Ellie Senft ◽  
John Caddell ◽  
Julia Lensing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Evaluation Report ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The U.S

The United States Army uses both subjective and objective evaluation methods when assessing the performance of duties and potential for future service in the Officer Evaluation Report (OER). Males and females proportionally receive the same objective ratings, but on the surface, it is difficult to determine whether subjective ratings are equal. This paper seeks to examine the different ways success is described in each gender and how the OER follows or deviates from these trends. Upon examination of narratives written on the evaluation reports, many of the same words are used to describe success of males and females in the narratives written by their raters. The similarities amongst the reports suggest that the narratives follow a standardized format which may devalue their purpose of providing individualized feedback to the officer and to promotion boards.

Review of Personnel work in the United States Army.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 476-476
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
The United States
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