Military personnel reassignments: services are exploring opportunities to reduce relocation costs: report to the Chairman

Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013) : U.S. General Accounting Office, [1996]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)37437420 Subject: Employees -- Relocation. Excerpt: ... B-270790 and the services had limited control over who left individual units and installations. To correct the shortages and to maintain the personnel readiness levels of the affected units, the services relocated personnel from other U.S. installations - a process called force leveling. PCS moves resulted Furthermore, part of the increase in U.S. operational from increased personnel demands on the services to fill joint positions pursuant to the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization centralized several functions, formerly conducted DOD Act of 1986. When by the individual services, the functions became joint duty positions. In April 1987, the Secretary of Defense published a joint duty assignment list that contained over 8,000 positions. By 1994, this list contained over 21,000 positions. While directly under the services ' control, the functions were often staffed at less than 100 percent of their authorized levels; the same functions must be filled at 100 percent under joint duty. In addition, the services must fill these positions from a smaller pool of personnel and PCS moves to meet the staffing demands. may incur more PCS As shown in figure 4, the Navy consistently had the largest number of moves between U.S. installations. This is because the Navy routinely rotates sailors between an assignment aboard a ship ( sea duty ) and a port or an inland installation ( shore duty ) approximately every 3 years. In many instances, these rotations require a PCS move because the Navy's major U.S. ports have more sea duty positions than shore duty positions. When the sea-to-shore rotation occurs in the same geographic location, such as move results. In fiscal year 1995, about PCS Norfolk, Virginia, a no-cost 27,000 no-cost, sea-to-shore rotations were made, but the...