The objective was to evaluate and, if possible, improve current standards for reenlistment in the Navy. Comparisons were made between unsatisfactory and satisfactory reenlistees on 17 predictors to determine which ones differentiated significantly between the two groups. Using the 9 more promising predictors thus identified and the optimally-weighted composite of these for predicting unsatisfactory/satisfactory performance in the population of reenlistees, the effects of using progressively higher cutting scores on each ...