ABSTRACT
Almost all of the United States’ contingency plans for responding with force to international crises involve rapid deployment of the Marines in the earliest phases of action. The Marines may be called upon to seize and hold a strategic geographic location or to negate a specific enemy asset. The exact mission will depend on the nature of the crisis, but in any case, it is essential for national security that the Marine Corps be able to rapidly mobilize its personnel from peacetime to wartime duties. We designed and built a system to assign marine officers appropriate duty assignments-or billets-during a crisis mobilization.
