... and recruitment and retention programs of the armed forces. Accurate data on the relationship between performance on the one hand and ability, experience, and training on the other would allow ... technician; ”technical” positions, including aviation machinist’s mate, aviation structural mechanic, aviation ordnanceman, aviation equipment support technician, and aviation survival equipmentman; ... ”mission capable” marginal product refers to the marginal product of an individual at the ”mission capable” level of readiness, defined as the ability to complete one and potentially all of the...