The Marine Corps Infantry Reserves: Supporting or Supported?

Abstract

The total force readiness of the Marine Corps will never be obtained, or sustained, as long as the criteria for assigning junior leadership billets (platoon commanders, company executive officers) in the Reserve Component (RC) infantry regiments is based on rank and not on Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). A Marine leader, regardless of whether he or she is serving in the Active Component (AC) or RC, must be trained in and be a duty expert in his or her assigned MOS. The Marine Corps cannot expect the RC to accomplish its mission requirements successfully if its assigned leaders do not possess the fundamental skills and formal training necessary to do the job. Assigning an officer to an MOS billet for which he or she is neither formally trained, nor experienced is a recipe for failure, especially in the reserve infantry regiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 2008
Accession Number
ADA499141

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  • Robert Tart

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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  • Energy and Power Technologies
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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Deployment
  • Executives
  • Infantry
  • Information Operations
  • Instructors
  • Iraqi-War
  • Leadership
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Occupational Specialties
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Schools
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warrant Officers

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