{"id":14482,"date":"2021-04-29T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/29\/marine-combat-instructors-may-see-special-duty-assignment-status-again\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:33:44","slug":"marine-combat-instructors-may-see-special-duty-assignment-status-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/29\/marine-combat-instructors-may-see-special-duty-assignment-status-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine combat instructors may see special duty assignment status again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAMP PENDLETON, California \u2015 In an effort to retain more and better combat instructors, the Marine Corps says it is strongly considering returning the billet to special duty assignment status \u2015 a status in line with drill instructor or recruiter duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combat instructors had a special duty assignment status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/08\/17\/volunteering-for-recruiter-or-drill-instructor-duty-could-put-a-lot-of-money-in-your-pocket-heres-how\/\" target=_blank>until 2019<\/a> when the job was made into a type 1 screenable billet, which comes with slightly fewer perks than the special duty assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are working hard to get the SDA status assigned to our combat instructors and I would say we are just about there,\u201d Brig. 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Jason Morris, the commander of Training and Education Command, told a group of reporters on Wednesday at Camp Pendleton, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/21\/heres-what-the-corps-new-school-of-infantry-training-looks-like\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IOC.png_ba1ce1.png?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Here\u2019s what the Corps\u2019 new School of Infantry training looks like<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The new 14-week course will add five weeks to the current course required for becoming an 0311.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The need for combat instructors comes as the Corps plans to implement a longer infantry course that sees the instructors taking on a squad leader role of 14 new Marines \u2015 a far cry from the current nine-week course that only has a handful of instructors supervise up to 300 Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The designers of the new course hope the extended training timeline in conjunction with the closer relationship between instructor and student will lead to a significantly more skilled and confident infantry Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current plan is for the Marine Corps to fully implement the extended Infantry Marine Course as the standard every infantry Marine is trained at by the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/26\/here-are-some-big-changes-that-may-be-coming-to-the-marine-corps\/\" target=_blank>fiscal year 2023,<\/a> to coincide with the Corps\u2019 plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/16\/top-marine-wants-to-see-marines-fighting-in-a-new-way-by-2023\/\" target=_blank>consolidate all infantry <\/a>military occupational specialties into one job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only slight exception will be 0341 mortarman who will go through the 14-week IMC before attending an additional mortarman school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra work on the combat instructors requires them to go through an extra six to eight weeks of training and will ultimately require the Marine Corps to bring on roughly 80 more combat instructors between both schools of infantry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commander of SOI\u2013West, Col. Coby Moran, told reporters on Wednesday that if the course is fully implemented it will require an additional company of instructors along with the accompanying support personnel who run ranges, provide vehicles and generally help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shift back to having combat instructors be considered screenable billets may make it easier to fill all those additional slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat SDA status can do, is it forces the organization to assign a certain number of people and a certain number of qualified people in those billets potentially at the expense of others. It is also something that we incentivize with increased promotion rate, accelerated promotion and all those sorts of things that come with that,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the prioritization of the billet and faster promotion rates, the change may come with an extra $150 per month in special duty assignment pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m optimistic that is going to happen in the near future,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that\u2019s good for the Marine Corps and that\u2019s good for the infantry\u2026 if we want to retain more people and ensure we have a more mature more proficient force it all starts right here in the schoolhouse,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The need for combat instructors comes as the Corps plans to implement a longer infantry course 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