Hosek, James; Totten, Mark - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 433-451
Why should deployment affect re-enlistment? In our model, members enter the military with naive beliefs about …-enlisting. Empirically, re-enlistment is related to the type and number of deployments, consistent with the learning model. Non …-hostile deployment increases first-term re-enlistment but hostile deployment has little effect except for the Army, where the effect is …