{"id":7408,"date":"2015-05-15T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2016-04-10T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:46:14","slug":"us-navy-marine-corps-mars-program-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7408","title":{"rendered":"US Navy-Marine Corps MARS Program to End"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"border-left-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; border-right-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom: #dfe2e5 1px solid; text-transform: none; font-weight: bold; color: #0d528e; outline-width: 0px; font-style: normal; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 10px; letter-spacing: normal; outline-color: invert; border-top-width: 0px; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: normal; color: #224466; outline-width: 0px; font-style: normal; outline-style: none; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; outline-color: invert; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 5px 10px 0px 10px;\"><span class=\"date\" style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; font-style: italic; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; display: block; outline-color: invert; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">via the ARRL<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: normal; color: #224466; outline-width: 0px; font-style: normal; outline-style: none; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; outline-color: invert; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 5px 10px 0px 10px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline-color: invert; line-height: 1.5; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The US Department of Defense (DoD)\u00a0is phasing out the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">US Navy-Marine Corps Military Auxiliary Radio System<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">(MARS)\u00a0program. Its operational mission will transition to the other MARS service branches by the end of September. The head of the US Navy-Marine Corps MARS program in Williamsburg, Virginia, made the announcement. The Navy-Marine Corps MARS program also supports the US Coast Guard as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the US Department of Homeland Security, and local emergency management agencies. A US Department of Defense-sponsored program, MARS branches are separately managed by their respective military service branches. MARS volunteers are Amateur Radio operators who provide auxiliary or emergency communications to local, national, and international emergency and safety organizations, as an adjunct to normal communications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline-color: invert; line-height: 1.5; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u201cNaval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic (NCTAMS LANT) intends to work with US Army MARS and US Air Force MARS in transitioning the Navy-Marine Corps MARS (NAVMARCORMARS) program by 30 Sep 2015,\u201d the announcement said. \u201cThe intent of the transition is to best align the program to support national mission requirements.\u201d Chris Jensen of NCTAMS LANT told ARRL that the Navy no longer has any service specific requirements for Navy-Marine Corps MARS and is working within DoD to transition the program into Army and Air Force MARS. \u201cWe will continue to publish updates as this transition progresses,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline-color: invert; line-height: 1.5; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The announcement encouraged current Navy-Marine Corps MARS members and clubs to submit applications to the US Army MARS or US Air Force MARS programs as soon as possible<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline-color: invert; line-height: 1.5; border: 0px; padding: 0px;\">W2IK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via the ARRL The US Department of Defense (DoD)\u00a0is phasing out the\u00a0US Navy-Marine Corps Military Auxiliary Radio System(MARS)\u00a0program. Its operational mission will transition to the other MARS service branches by the end of September. The head of the US Navy-Marine Corps MARS program in Williamsburg, Virginia, made the announcement. The Navy-Marine Corps MARS program also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,9,737,16,373],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}