Our individual training begins at our recruit depots where young men and women are transformed into United States Marines through a thorough in-doctrination to our history, customs and traditions, thereby imbuing them with the mental, moral and physical founda-tion necessary for successful service to Corps and Country. Our training devel-ops physically fit, tactically and technical-ly proficient warriors of high moral char-acter with a bias for action, possessing the courage to make ethically sound deci-sions, and capable of properly preparing and leading Marines to successfully ac-complish their unit’s mission in combat.
As Marines progress through the ranks, they develop skills within and beyond their military occupational specialty that will allow them to perform challenging missions across a wide range of military operations. As we look towards an uncer-tain future, a primary individual training focus area for the Marine Corps is the improvement of our small unit leaders’
intuitive ability to assess, decide, and act while operating in a more decentralized manner.
Values Based Training (VBT): The purpose of VBT is to establish a common set of values that every Marine can under-stand and uphold. These common values establish teamwork and discipline, and ul-timately build trust and confidence in fel-low Marines, in our leaders, and with the American people. VBT starts at recruit training, the stress (Physical, Mental, and Moral) on the recruit increases over the course of the crucible’s 54 hours. During
each rotation the recruits participate in a Core Values Station:
s focuses the recruits on teamwork and commitment, and comes at a time dur-ing the crucible when the level of stress is relatively low.
s the recruits on the need to reach within and to continue to face, with courage, the challenges that still lie before them and why it is important that they suc-ceed, and comes at a time during the crucible when the level of stress is start-ing to grow, and may come on day two when it is high.
s War discussion and scenarios station.
It comes at a time during the crucible when the level of stress is near peak, places the capstone on Core Values and focuses the recruits on winning battles with honor on the battlefield, even when they are under stress.
Enhanced Combat Hunter Leaders Course (ECHLC): Combat Hunter is the creation of a mindset through integra-tion of enhanced observaintegra-tion, combat profiling and combat tracking in order to produce a more ethically minded, tac-tically cunning and lethal Marine better prepared to succeed across the range of military operations. He proactively as-sesses the environment in order to gain a tactical advantage over the enemy. As a persistent collector he systematically observes and profiles his surroundings, collecting more relevant information from the human, social, and physical
ter-rains and reports information of greater relevance and potential intelligence val-ue. In regards to the intelligence cycle, a combat hunter trained Marine enables more efficient analysis and prioritization of collected information, thus increasing the tactical tempo. The purpose of the ECHLC is to develop leaders who will be able to train, lead, and employ Combat Profiling, Tactical Questioning, Tactical Site Exploitation, Combat Tracking, En-hanced Observation, Human Psychology, Decision Making, Tactical Debriefing and Policing in Combat to support both indi-vidual Marine and Company Operations.
Tactical MAGTF Integration Course (TMIC): Taught by the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MC-TOG) in Twentynine Palms, TMIC will train Gunnery Sergeant through Master Gunnery Sergeant, Infantry Weapons Officer (Gunner), and Captain through Major from the ground combat MOS’s to become proficient battalion operations chiefs and officers. The course includes 341 academic hours that is taught over 34 training days. The course is conducted over a period of six weeks and is divided into three blocks of instruction:
Bl ock 1 is Academics and Applica-tions,
Bl ock 2 is Ground Combat Element Integration and,
Block 3 is Final Exercise
During the Academics and Applica-tions block of the course, students will re-ceive instruction and participate in events focused on enhancing their knowledge in seven primary subjects: Plan, Operate,
Joint and Interagency, Intel driven opera-tions, Fires, Information operations and training. They will be evaluated through performance evaluations for learning ob-jectives from the train duty area.
Amphibious Core Training: The Marine Corps is developing and refining key training programs to reinvigorate our amphibious capability. The Training and Education Command (TECOM) is pre-paring individual Marines through train-ing and education at the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School, the Ma-rine Corps Command and Staff College, and various courses at the Expeditionary Warfare Training Groups Atlantic and Pa-cific, such as the Type Commander Am-phibious Training. We will prepare Ma-rine Air Ground Task Forces (MAGTFs) by training alongside the Navy through such exercises as amphibious landing ex-ercises and Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) exercises.
MAGTF Training Program: TECOM is developing the next generation for how Marines in the operating forces will pre-pare for future fights and operating en-vironments. The MAGTF Training Pro-gram will establish, define, and integrate the requirements for training programs and resources which will facilitate the de-velopment of warfighting capabilities in those operational forces which comprise a MAGTF.
Battle Staff Training Program (BSTP): The BSTP is designed to provide training to battle staffs across all the el-ements of the MAGTF, at echelons from a company to MEF level. Most
impor-2 4 0 | USMC CONCEPTS & PROGRAMS 2011 tantly, the BSTP integrates individual and collective training, provided by multiple organizations from across TECOM, into a single training continuum beginning with training of Command and Control Systems Operators, and concludes with a Command Post Exercise that tests the abilities of the entire staff. The BSTP provides an invaluable tool for the com-mander to assist in the training of his staff, and provides the commander with a detailed understanding of the full staff training continuum.
MAGTF Integrated Training Exer-cise (ITX): The MAGTF ITX provides a battalion or squadron level collective training event supporting training in skills required to accomplish assigned core mission essential tasks (METs), and serves as the Service level assessment of a unit. This program will be similar in scale to the type of combined arms training that was conducted prior to Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and the Mojave Viper pre-deployment train-ing program. It will include all elements of the MAGTF including command ele-ments, ground combat eleele-ments, logistics
combat elements and aviation combat el-ements. ITX will provide training on the techniques of MAGTF integration at the tactical level and the technical skills al-lowing subordinate units of the MAGTF to work together.
MAGTF Large-Scale Exercise (LSE):
The MAGTF LSE is a Marine Expedition-ary Brigade and Marine ExpeditionExpedition-ary Force-level exercise program that will use a Live-Virtual-Constructive (L-V-C) training linked through a supporting net-work across the United States and with amphibious forces afloat to focus on the integration of headquarter organizations and their ability to conduct integrated MAGTF operations. It can be used as the final pre-deployment training event for a MAGTF which as has been designated to deploy, or it will serve as an exercise to validate the ability of the MAGTF to execute designated core mission essen-tial tasks (METs), depending on require-ments of the MEF commander. MAGTF LSE will increase joint and amphibious capabilities as the Marine Corps reconsti-tutes its full amphibious capability.