AbstractsSociology

Any segment of the population with characteristics peculiar to itself will present problems. Young adults are such a group. They have been the subject of numerous extensive studies which have indicated underlying motivation and reactions of the group but, at the present, have not resulted in final, scientific conclusions. Since there is already a high percentage of this particular segment of society within the Navy population and since the prospects for extended compulsory military service in the near future are growing, the Navy must concern itself with the problems of the young adult in all their far reaching implications: This study will attempt to: 1) review the general and special characteristics of the young adult as they appear in society; 2) describe and analyze the pattern of the continental air station enlisted personnel officer's job as it fits into Navy Department's organization and air station organization; 3) point out a few of the most common problems presented by the young adult in his relations with the enlisted officer in a large air station; 4) recommend constructive administrative procedures feasible on that operating level.