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Strategic Sealift Officer Program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ6818381 ↗
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The Strategic Sealift Officer Force, previously known as the Merchant Marine Reserve and founded in 1913 as the Naval Auxiliary Reserve, consists of members of the United States Merchant Marine who are also members of the United States Navy. Officers in the Merchant Marine Reserve are entitled to wear the Strategic Sealift Officer Warfare Insignia.

The program was called Merchant Marine Naval Reserve from 1925 to 1938 and Merchant Marine Reserve from 1938 to 2010.

References

"About the Strategic Sealift Officer Program". mscsealift.dodlive.mil. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

"Navy forms Strategic Sealift Officer Program". FreightWaves. 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1925, 1938, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Strategic, Sealift and Officer providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Strategic Sealift Officer Program” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.