The Strategic Sealift Officer Program, 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 United States Merchant Marines are United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels. Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, an ...

who are also members of the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

. 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.

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Strategic Sealift Midshipman Program (SSMP)DoD Investigation into Military Sealift Readiness
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