{"id":84065,"date":"2019-01-15T13:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84065"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:18:55","slug":"army-watercraft-mos-being-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84065","title":{"rendered":"Army Watercraft MOS Being Eliminated?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Army Photo of Landing Craft Utility (LCU).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many Soldiers like to brag about how the Army “has more ships” than the Navy. That’s according to these Soldier’s definition of what constitutes a boat, of course. This changes when the definition of a boat, or ship, changes.<\/p>\n

It may not be long; however, before the Navy regains the title regardless of which definition of “boat” is used.<\/p>\n

There’s reportedly a move underway to do away with the Army’s maritime mission… Ending something that the Army has been involved with for decades.<\/p>\n

The water craft MOSs are being put on a chopping block, and Soldiers are being informed that they need to be filling other roles within the Army. Plenty of “re-class” opportunities for Army Reserve Soldiers… and Active Guard Reserve Soldiers should be on the line with their career managers to discuss their next moves.<\/p>\n

I haven’t found much in collaboration to this article, so we’ll leave this in the “truth or fiction” category. From gCaptain:<\/span><\/p>\n

There appears to be no discussion on how the US Army plans to support their present maritime operations, and possible future commitments while eliminating nearly 80% of its present force, which resides in the US Army Reserve. Soldiers who are now in the Maritime field, and who have spent their careers training to be Army Mariners, will be “assessed into units where they can best serve the needs of the Army Reserve whiles also being gainfully employed”.<\/p>\n

Army officials are also removing Watercraft positions within the assignment system, to ensure Soldiers in the future cannot be assigned to maritime duties, indicating there is no plan by the Army to reconsider their actions, or bring back a watercraft capability should the world situation change. A final line in the Army’s plan to eliminate watercraft is the instruction to “Remove all markings prior to turning in systems and vessels to DRMO”. A sad ending to a capability, which has existed since World War I.<\/p>\n

Our questions include asking how the Army now plans to respond to military and humanitarian aid in remote and austere locations, where ports and harbor infrastructure do not exist?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Navigate to the link here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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