I first revealed on this blog, that the Navy was thinking of disestablishing the Navy-Marine Corps MARS radio service. See my post of May 22, 2009 athttp://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2009/05/nnwc-proposes-to-disestablish-navy-mc.html
Now this official update from the Chief, Navy-Marine Corps MARS:
CHNAVMARCORMARS INFO BCST 20-091.
NAVMARCORMARS STATUS: OPNAV AND DOD HAVE YET TO RESOLVE WHETHER THE NAVY WILL BE ALLOWED TO 'SUNSET' THE MARS MISSION. I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME MEMBERS OF OTHER MARS SERVICES ARE MISINTERPRETING THE WORDS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MARS CHIEFS AND ARE PRESSURING OUR MEMBERS TO JOIN THEIR SERVICE. THIS IS TOTALLY OUT OF LINE AND SHOULD NOT BE OCCURING. IF, I REPEAT IF, DOD ALLOWS NAVY TO TERMINATE NAVMARCORMARS, WE WILL ADDRESS THIS IN AN OFFICIAL MANNER. OTHERWISE CONTINUE NAVMARCORMARS OPERATIONS AS NORMAL.