Susan Payne Carter⇑ and Abigail Wozniak⇑ U.S. Military Academy, West Point Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, NBER IZA Contact: susan.carter{at}westpoint.edu abigailwozniak{at}gmail.com

CATTELL (2), Lentz (J), Mailer (6) and others, arguing from the observation that family size is inversely related to test performance, education and socio-economic level, have contended that the mean I.Q. of the population is declining at the rate of three or four points per generation. In contrast, data collected by the Personnel Research Section, AGO, during the closing months of World War II...

A U.S. Army Reserve Combat Stress Control prevention team was dispatched to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to provide preventative mental health care to a U.S. Army airborne division and Special Operations forces. The team's mission was to ensure mental health readiness of units in the area of operations. In Bagram, Afghanistan, the Combat Stress Control team identified an...

The Intelligent Decision Aiding Representation System (IDARS) is a frame-based object-oriented platform that is intended to support the intelligent tutoring of U.S. Army planning personnel in battlefield communications network configuration. U.S. Army communications networks are configured using Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) which provides communications support for a typical five-division ...

Currently, in the UK military, and particularly in the Army, a significant number of personnel are regularly discharged on the grounds of being assessed as "Temperamentally Unsuitable (TU) for military duties", under Queen’s Regulations (QRs): (Army) 9.414 and 9.434 (1). In the last two years (2001-2003), preliminary figures suggest that approximately 700 serving personnel were recommended for ...

Simple countermeasures against passive (thermal) infrared intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and thermal imagers were tested in winter by U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers working with personnel of the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Under certain site conditions, the countermeasures were very effective, enabling intruders to pass undetected by the infrared ...

Military mental health care professionals have, for decades, recommended that commanders implement a unit watch (now called a "command interest profile" at most Army posts) as a tool for enhancing the safety of personnel in the unit when a soldier presents with suicidal or homicidal ideation. Although these procedures are used extensively in garrison and in operational settings, there exists no...