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Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific
May 6, 2021 2:51 PM
U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, take simulated artillery fire during the last event of a five-day capstone exercise for the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on April 30, 2021. US Marine Corps
CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF. After 20 years of counterinsurgency and low-end conflict in the Middle East, the Marines are rapidly retooling for a different kind of fight.
As the service has shed legacy equipment like tanks and heavy artillery to reshape itself into a mobile, Pacific island-hopping force, it’s retooling how it trains the Marines of the future to fit into a more complex way of war while reinforcing its creed of “every Marine a rifleman.”
Marine combat instructors may see special duty assignment status again 6 hours ago Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dave Tomlinson, infantry weapons officer at Marine Corps Systems Command, demonstrates the Squad Common Optic attached to the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle. (Matt Gonzales/Marine Corps) CAMP PENDLETON, California ― In an effort to retain more and better combat instructors, the Marine Corps says it is strongly considering returning the billet to special duty assignment status ― a status in line with drill instructor or recruiter duty. Combat instructors had a special duty assignment status until 2019 when the job was made into a type 1 screenable billet, which comes with slightly fewer perks than the special duty assignment.
Marine Combat Instructors May Soon Get Their Special Duty Assignment Status Back
U.S. Marine Sgt. Omer Nezam illustrates how to compact composition C-4 into an improvised bangalore explosive device during compartmentalized terrain training as part of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 20, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Jeremy Laboy)
29 Apr 2021
CAMP PENDLETON, California The Marine Corps new infantry training pilot program emphasizes greater development of students through personal mentorship and one-on-one instruction. If the program becomes standard across the fleet, the service is going to need many more combat instructors and leaders are already strategizing ways to attract more talented infantry leaders to the job.
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