Military Officer Appraisal an Examination

<p>There is little or no argument that the four services (U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy) have different approaches when performing an evaluation and appraisal of their officers. One unfailing theme is that each service's goal is to document an individual's military career and provide a consistent stream of reliable information to promotion administrative and command selection boards. This one document whether it's the Untied States Navy's or Marine Corp's Fitness Report (FITREP) Air Force's Officer Performance Report (OPR) or the Army's Officer Evaluation Report (OER) all of these records have the greatest impact on each officer's military career and promotion opportunities. Could it be possible that an examination of each services documentation process could lead to a better format? To this end this paper contains a broad review and analysis of the services instructions and guidance discusses the strenghts weakness and offers recommendations of possible improvements to their respective evaluation systems.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>