We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75 percent. Officer training also increases educational attainment post-military service. We argue that ...

The military courts have developed a rich case law tradition in the area of rape trauma syndrome testimony. These cases are particularly important in the context of a military that is both increasingly female and increasingly sensitive to mixed gender relationships. This article reviews the military court's approach to rape trauma testimony over the past 15 years. The author notes that milita...

The American “high school movement” of the early 20th century resulted in a dramatic rise in high school graduation rates, a trend that continued into the middle of the century interrupted only by World War II. Previous work has characterized the pre-World War II transformation of secondary education, but less attention has been focused on the continued increased in educational attainment after...

Plasmid: First Report of mcr-1 in the United States Patrick McGann, Erik Snesrud, Rosslyn Maybank, Brendan Corey, Ana C. Ong, Robert Clifford, Mary Hinkle, Timothy Whitman, Emil Lesho, Kurt E. Schaecher Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases, Walter Reed National Mi...

Received 12 November 1986 Revised 1 March 1988 Gideon Y. Akavia has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California in Los Angeles. He was with the Faculty of the Israel Institute of Technology, and since 1980 has been with the Center for Military Analyses (CEMA), Haifa, Israel. He is presently visiting Stanford University, as a Science Fellow in the Center for International Secur...

Good educational game design is about providing an engaging experience for learners. Experiential training games have been used in fields such as medicine, business, outdoor adventures and military operations for decades. Research from these fields demonstrates the importance of including debriefing activities to help the learners consider what was learned and how that learning can be connected...