{"id":31594,"date":"2023-03-06T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/06\/first-lateral-entrants-could-join-the-marine-corps-within-months\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:12:54","slug":"first-lateral-entrants-could-join-the-marine-corps-within-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2023\/03\/06\/first-lateral-entrants-could-join-the-marine-corps-within-months\/","title":{"rendered":"First lateral entrants could join the Marine Corps within months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Marine Corps is working on a pilot lateral entry program that will let people with in-demand skills <\/a>enter or reenter the Marine Corps at a higher rank than they otherwise would \u2014 perhaps as soon as a few months from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a situation where you go out [after active-duty service], you get extensive 5G experience, which simply doesn\u2019t exist within the military at that threshold, and now you\u2019re like, \u2018You know what? I really miss it. I want to come back,\u2019\u201d Lt. Gen. James Glynn, deputy commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, said at a roundtable with reporters at the Pentagon on Friday. \u201cThat would be a lateral entry scenario we could envision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps in 2021 announced in its Talent Management 2030 strategy document, which lays out changes to personnel policy, that it intended to offer lateral entry for \u201cexceptionally talented Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An update to Talent Management 2030, released Monday, makes clear that the pilot program for lateral entry will target prior-service Marines and Marine reservists.<\/p>\n\n\n\t