URL officers are also eligible to command shore installations, facilities and activities directly supporting the navy's warfare mission.
A URL community previously known as General Unrestricted Line has been phased out and no longer accepting new entrants.
RL and Staff Corps officers are authorized to command ashore within their particular speciality, but are not eligible for combatant command at sea, which remains strictly within the purview of URL officers.
Eventually, this dispute led the Department of the Navy to abolish the differences between the groups, amalgamating them into Unrestricted Line Officers in 1899.
[4] This fact can lead to confusion with non-American naval personnel, lacking the division between the two groups.