Starting July 1st the Marine Corps Reserve will be promoting Sgt and below with MOS specific cutting scores. �The reserves has been promoting with OCC Field only cutting scores for as far back as Manpower records are available online, which is 2000. �This should lead to a drastic change in speed of promotion through out the reserves. �Previously the Marines in larger MOS groups were able to promote reasonably quickly due to the down preassure applied to the OCC Field scores by the higher attrition MOS. �Marines that applied even minimal composite score effort were usually able to promote around 8 months earlier than promotion models predicted. �These same Marines will now need to almost MAX out bonus points and maintain very high Green scores to stay competitive in the future. � You can read the entirety of the changes in the MARADMIN below.
