It’s unclear exactly why the Marine Corps initiated an audit of the cyber officers’ records in particular.īut the Marine Corps’ cyber field has faced some challenges in the first few years since its creation.Īcross the services, it’s expensive to train cyber officers and hard to retain them amid the pull of lucrative jobs in the private sector or at other federal agencies. “The Marine Corps made necessary corrections to ensure personnel records accurately reflected signed service agreements,” Carlock stated. “So it sounded like it was just kind of an admin error and they had to kind of go back and fix everything.”īut not for Taubl and 23 others who did sign the secondary service agreements.Ĭarlock said she couldn’t comment on any particular Marine’s record because of privacy concerns. “I don’t think they quite realized until after the change in the date that some people did not sign the contract,” the Marine said. The lieutenant’s command resolved the issue within a few weeks, restoring the lieutenant’s original date, according to the lieutenant. The future cyber officers in this lieutenant’s class, which also graduated in 2020, weren’t asked to sign the secondary service agreements that would have extended their service lengths, according to the lieutenant.īut in October 2022, the lieutenant also saw a new, significantly delayed end of active service date. One cyber lieutenant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Marine was discouraged from speaking to the media, described being in a class at The Basic School that graduated shortly before Taubl’s. When Taubl saw his new end of active service date on Marine Online in October 2022, several other lieutenants in the small, tight-knit cyber community reported their dates also had been moved with no notice, according to Taubl. That fall, the Marine Corps conducted an audit of the cyber officers’ service records, adjusting them on a case-by-case basis to match the service agreements on file, Carlock said. “I figured, ‘Hey, maybe they realized that this was not applied evenly across the board’ and that they just kind of said, ‘You know what, we messed this up, we’ll correct it for future classes, but we can’t enforce this if it’s applied to only some and not others,’” Taubl said.Įven up to September 2022, his pay statement listed the May 2023 end of active service date, according to a copy reviewed by Marine Corps Times.
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