NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Marine Corps top cyber leader said it wasn't going to lower physical standards to allow more candidates for its new cyber MOS.

“First be a Marine, then a rifleman” and finally a cyber warrior, Maj. Gen. Lori Reynolds said on Tuesday at the Navy League's 2017 Sea Air Space exposition.

Even though “the eligible population is shrinking” because they do not meet height, weight, strength, intellectual and moral standards of the service, the Marines will keep the same standards for those in the service focused on cyber.