The U.S. Marine Corps is a large organization with a highly recognizable culture that values mental and physical toughness, pride, and character. However, with emerging technologies and other geopolitical trends, the battlefield is changing in ways that have a number of important implications for the type of individual who is recruited and trained to become a Marine. The challenge confronting U.S. military leadership is how to cope with these changes in a way that facilitates accomplishment of an evolving Marine Corps mission and, at the same time, preserves the Marine Corps' rich tradition. There are new technologies and tasks needing to be accomplished for which there is little expertise in the Marine Corps, so creating new positions to deal with these tasksand filling these positions with the appropriate personnelis a top priority. Perhaps the best example is the growing need for cyber-security personnel who have knowledge of computers and electronics, network monitoring software, development environment software, transaction security and anti-virus software, operating systems, and web platforms. Cyber-security personnel are needed not only to work in offices and computer laboratories for support and administrative purposes, but also for forward deployment in the field to ensure computer information can be used for opera-tional purposes. Regardless of the context in which they work, cyber-security personnel need to have a keen sense of when things are going wrong, or when there's likely to be a problem. They also need to be able to apply general rules to solve problems, and to combine various pieces of seemingly unrelated information to form conclusions. The need for cyber-security personnel is so immediate that there has been talk of allowing for lateral entry into the Marine Corps. This means that those with the requisite cyber-security skills and abilities may be allowed to join the Marine Corps, at an advanced rank, without having to go through boot camp. One concern with this idea is that boot camp weeds out recruits who do not have the mental and physical abilities necessary to be a "true" Marine. The obvious alternative is to recruit and train individuals who have the complete mix of abilities needed to excel as both a Marine warrior and as a cyber-security specialist. However, it may be difficult to find the right individuals, and the process of training them may take too long. By the time new recruits make their way through boot camp and cyber training, altogether new cyber threats may emerge.

10.1 Identify and describe the types of abilities that historically have been most relevant to Marine effectiveness. Which additional abilities appear to be important for Marines involved in cyber-security?

10.2 Why might it be difficult to find new recruits that possess the appropriate mix of abilities? What could the Marine Corps do to increase the size of the pool of applicants with these abilities?

10.3 How might the Marine Corps be able to use their existing workforce to deal with their need for cyber-personnel? Describe the advantages and disadvantages of such an initiative.

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