Cast-off youth : policy and training methods from the military experience / Thomas G. Sticht ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sticht, Thomas G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project 100,000 (United States).

Youth with social disabilities--Training of--United States.

Youth with social disabilities.

United States--Armed Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.

United States.

Armed Forces.

Physical Description:

xiv, 216 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Praeger, 1987.

Summary:

This work focuses on the highly controversial Project 100,000 which was initiated in the midst of the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty during the Johnson administration. With the project as a model, the authors easily show exactly how the military examined, selected, classified, trained, and utilized the one third of our nation generally considered untrainable and unemployable. In addition to providing detailed statistics on the performance of lower aptitude youth in the military for the last half-century, this work analyzes experiments conducted by the armed forces to develop effective and efficient ways to train these youths.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pages [198]-208.

ISBN:

0275926214

OCLC:

15588686