Marine Corps Pilot Program Allows Qualified Signals, Cyber Recruits to Join Service Up to Rank of Gunny
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence and Konstantin Toropin
Published June 07, 2024 at 2:03pm ET
The Marine Corps has announced a new pilot program that will allow some signals and cyber recruits to enter the service at high enlisted ranks, including up to gunnery sergeant.
The Marine Corps Talent Acquisition Pilot program, or MCTAP, began this month and will last two years. Its aim is to recruit critical personnel, the cyberspace warfare operator and signals intelligence collection manager specialties, into the Corps as the services compete against the civilian sector's often higher-paying salaries for those skills.
The announcement last week is a culmination of several years of conversations and planning by the Corps on how to incentivize people with highly technical and marketable skills to come to the Marines without sacrificing the cultural fabric of the most tradition-bound service in the U.S. military.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/07/marine-corps-pilot-program-allows-qualified-signals-cyber-recruits-join-service-rank-of-gunny.html
