How do I find who can help me obtain permission from RP to grant permission to recruit for doctoral dissertation?

SFC Melvin Brandenburg — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:37:10 -0500

Topic: Perceived influence of leadership on the stay-leave decision of retirement eligible service members. I want to better understand how leadership influences someone to either stay beyond 20 years to reach 30 years, or leave before they reach 30 years.

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 17 at 2021 7:46 PM

Sgt Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:46:41 -0500

SFC Melvin Brandenburg One of our Senior RallyPoint Administrators will be able to answer your question.

SSG Carlos Madden, LTC Kevin B.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 17 at 2021 8:43 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:43:07 -0500

Best of luck

Response by SPC Nancy Greene made Feb 17 at 2021 9:37 PM

SPC Nancy Greene — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:37:40 -0500

Excellent topic for research SFC Melvin Brandenburg! Best of luck with Your endeavors!

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 17 at 2021 9:48 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:48:27 -0500

RP is pretty limited. I don't know your topic, but you don't have a better resource?

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 18 at 2021 10:05 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:05:08 -0500

The question really becomes how do you want to contact your subjects. Open messages to RP is usually illadvisored both by their ToS and your dissertation parameters. As someone that is also conducting his dissertation on leadership and retention, there are very strict guidelines on how you contact subjects and in what manner. Be sure to speak to your dissertation advisor as well as your IRB board to ensure RP is an acceptable means.
When thinking about your sample, contacting specific people could cause a problem in your sampling and create some bias or errors. Have you established your literature review and method and methodology? What is your parameters for sampling?

Response by SFC Casey O'Mally made Feb 18 at 2021 1:51 PM

SFC Casey O'Mally — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:51:38 -0500

This has already been pretty much answered, but just to throw it out there, Remember that Retention Control Point (RCP) is a thing, at least in the Army.
The only reason I say that is you mentioned 20 v. 30. But for SSG there is no option past 20, for SFC, it is 20 v. 24, and for MSG/1SG (non-promotable) it is 20 v. 26 (at least in the Army, not sure how the sister services do it). And for Officers it is different entirely - and there is pretty much never a 10 year window. If you are looking at 20 v. 30, you are looking strictly at SGMs and CSMs, which will GREATLY reduce your sample pool.