Agenda

• Background
• Title 10 and USMC Vision
• USMC Objectives
• Core Competencies
• Organization & Locations
• Marine Air Ground Task Forces
(MAGTFs) and other USMC Forces
• Seabasing and Forward Presence

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 The Maritime Global Commons

• 75% of people live w/in 200mi • 23,000 ships are underway daily
of a coast carrying 90% of the world’s
• 70% of world is water international commerce
• 95% of international • 49% of the world’s oil travels
communications travels via through 6 major chokepoints
underwater cables • 25% of the world’s oil and gas is
drilled at sea

Navy-Marine Corps team in support of a Maritime Nation

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 Strategic Challenges

• Multi-polar world
– Economic volatility
– Energy dependency
– Global Commons accessibility

• Weakened states / Non-state actors

– Regional instability
– Terrorism / piracy
– WMD proliferation

• Transnational threats
– Migration & Illegal immigration
– Drug & human trafficking
– Climate change
– Increased competition for resources
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 Sources of Instability, & Conflict

Poorly Governed Spaces

• Guatemala-Chiapas Border

• Colombia-Venezuela Border
• West Africa
• East Africa
• Arabian Peninsula
• North Caucasus Region
• Afghan-Pakistan Border
• Sulawesi-Mindanao

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Urban Stress Youth Bulge Terrorism/Crime Ungoverned Energy Demand Nuclear Water Stress Choke points
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 Title 10 Responsibilities
The Marine Corps … shall be organized to include not less than three combat divisions and
three air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be
organic therein.

The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine
forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the
fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land
operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.

In addition, the Marine Corps shall provide detachments and organizations for service on
armed vessels of the Navy, shall provide security detachments for the protection of
naval property at naval stations and bases, and shall perform such other duties as the
President may direct. However, these additional duties may not detract from or interfere
with the operations for which the Marine Corps is primarily organized.

The Marine Corps shall develop, in coordination with the Army and the Air Force, those
phases of amphibious operations that pertain to the tactics, technique, and equipment
used by landing forces.

The Marine Corps is responsible, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for
the expansion of peacetime components of the Marine Corps to meet the needs of war.
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TITLE 10, Subtitle C, PART I, CHAPTER 507, § 5063
 USMC Vision Statement

The Marine Corps of 2025 will fight and win our Nation’s battles with
multicapable MAGTFs, either from the sea or in sustained operations
ashore.

Our unique role as the Nation’s force in readiness, along with our
values, enduring ethos, and core competencies, will ensure we remain
highly responsive to the needs of combatant commanders in an
uncertain environment and against irregular threats.

Our future Corps will be increasingly reliant on naval deployment,

preventative in approach, leaner in equipment, versatile in
capabilities, and innovative in mindset.

In an evolving and complex world, we will excel as the Nation’s

expeditionary “force of choice.”

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 Core Competencies
• The Corps conducts persistent forward naval engagement and is
always prepared to respond as the Nation’s force in readiness.

• The Corps employs integrated combined arms across the range of

military operations, and can operate as part of a joint or multinational
force.
• The Corps provides forces and specialized detachments for
service aboard naval ships, on stations, and for operations
ashore.
• The Corps conducts joint forcible entry operations from the sea
and develops amphibious landing force capabilities and doctrine.
• The Corps conducts complex expeditionary operations in the
urban littorals and other challenging environments.

• The Corps leads joint / multinational operations and enables

interagency activities.
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 Strategy Objectives for 2025

• Focus on the Individual Marine • Ensure Amphibious Force Levels

• Improve Training and Education Meet Strategic Requirements
for Fog, Friction, and Uncertainty • Create Joint Seabasing
• Expand Persistent Forward Capabilities
Presence and Engagement • Lead Joint/ Multinational
• Posture for Hybrid Threats in Operations and Enable
Complex Environments Interagency Activities
• Reinforce Naval Relationships • Maintain A Ready and Sustainable
Reserve
• Build and Deploy Multicapable
MAGTFs

Strengthening the MAGTF for employment across the spectrum of conflict

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 Capstone Operational Concept

• Focused on:
– Expeditionary ethos:
• Fast, Austere, Lethal
– Defeating Hybrid threats and challenges
– Enhancing the MAGTF’s flexibility, agility,
and adaptability for maneuver warfare
– Enabling Marines to think faster – decide
faster - act decisively
– Increase the ability of the rifle company to
conduct the full range of missions

• Describes four operational imperatives

necessary to win:
– Seabasing
…a bridge from the national – Persistent forward presence and
strategy and overarching naval engagement
concept to service-specific – Agile and adaptable forces
operating concepts and
– Multicapable across the range of military ops
envisioned capabilities

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 Marine Corps Organization

• Supporting Establishment
• Headquarters, Marine Corps (HQMC)
• Recruiting, Educating, Training, Equipping

• Operating Forces
• Service Component Commands
• Marine Air Ground Task Forces (MAGTFs)
• Chem / Bio Incident Response Force (CBIRF)
• Marine Corps Security Force Regiment
• Marine Embassy Security Command
• HMX-1 Presidential Support Squadron

• Marine Corps Forces Reserve

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 USMC Forces By Category

*Activated Reservists: ~4% Supporting Establishment:

Active Reserve: ~1 % ~17%

P2T2: ~15%
Patients, Prisoners,
Transients, Trainees

Active Component - Operating

Forces: ~63%

TOTAL MARINES ON ACTIVE DUTY: > 210,000 *

(wartime augmentation)
14 Apr 2009
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 Marine Forces Reserve

Individual Ready Marines (~55,000) Active Reserve Marines (~2,100)

The DoD force planning metric for Reserve

Force mobilization is 1 year of mobilization
with 5 years of demobilization before the
next mobilization (1:5 mobilized-to-
demobilized ratio).

The current USMCR reality is that this

mobilization ratio is closer to 1:4 with the
Marine Corps working to move towards the
directed 1:5.

Selected Marine Corps Reserve (~30,000)

Individual Mobilization Augmentees (~2,900)

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 USMC Bases and Stations

Mountain Warfare
Center Bridgeport MCB Twenty-nine
Support Activity HQMC
Palms
Kansas City
Logistics Base
Quantico
Barstow
Air Station Cherry
Camp
Point
Pendleton
Air Station Camp Lejeune
Miramar Air Station New River
Air Station
Recruit Depot
Recruit Depot Yuma
Parris Island
San Diego
Air Station Beaufort
1st Marine Marine Logistics Base
Brigade Forces Albany
Kaneohe Reserve
Air Station HQ

* Over 40 Inspector-Instructor(I&I) Units with Marine Reserve Units throughout the country in every state
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 Key OCONUS Locations

Prepositioning -
Norway US
US European
Southern Command MEU Augmentation
Command Program - Kuwait
I MEF II MEF III MEF
Marine Forces US (Okinawa & Iwakuni)
US
Central
Reserve HQ African
Command
Command US
Pacific
US MPSRON 1 Command
Southern
Command
MPSRON 2 MPSRON 3

Expeditionary Forces in Readiness

MEF : Marine Expeditionary Force
MPSRON: Maritime Prepositioning Squadron
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 MAGTF Elements
Task Organized to Mission

Command
Element
(CE)

Aviation Ground Logistics

Combat Element Combat Element Combat Element
(ACE) (GCE) (LCE)

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 MAGTF Capabilities
Across the Range of Mil Ops
Security Cooperation SP MAGTF

Marine Expeditionary Unit

(MEU)
Marine Expeditionary
Brigade
Theater Security
(MEB) Marine Expeditionary
Cooperation
Force
(MEF)

NEOs
Counterinsurgency
Humanitarian Assistance
Disaster Relief “Two - Fisted Joint Forcible Entry
Fighter”
Mid-Intensity
Conflict
Partner and Prevent Crisis Response ……Contingency Ops Major Combat Operations

Integrated with Combatant Commander Theater Campaign Plans

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 Scalable MAGTFs

• Forward presence and flexible MAGTFs enable the

Corps to respond quickly to crises and then integrate
additional capabilities and capacities as needed

MEF
Win the Nation’s Battles
20-90 K
60 Days Sustainment
MEB
Respond to Crises
3-20 K MEU(SOC) SP MAGTF
30 Days Sustainment Promote Peace Theater Security Cooperation
And Stability Building Partner Capacity
1.5-3 K
15 Days Sustainment
CRISIS

• The inherent C2, INTELLIGENCE, MANEUVER, FIRES, LOGISTIC, and

FORCE PROTECTION of the Navy-Marine Corps team makes us the most
flexible and cost-effective force-in-readiness for the Nation
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 Special Purpose MAGTF

• Specific crisis response mission

• Most focused and specifically tailored MAGTF
• Manning and sustainability as required by mission
• Examples:
• SPMAGTF LA - Riot control in Los Angeles
• SPMAGTF New Orleans – Katrina Disaster relief
• SPMAGTF Lebanon – Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation
(NEO)
• SPMAGTF Africa Partnership Station – Security Cooperation

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 Security Cooperation MAGTF
A SP MAGTF task organized to meet specific CCDR requirements

Additional capabilities / attachments as

required:
SC MAGTF -Interagency Representatives
- Navy Expeditionary Combat Command
- U.S. Coast Guard
- Allies
- Info Operations / Civil Affairs
KEY to increasing - Veterinary capabilities
forward presence and - Band
engagement - Others as needed

Task Organized Task Organized Task Organized Other

Ground Combat Aviation Combat Logistics Detachments
Element Detachment Element
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 Marine Expeditionary Unit
(MEU)
- Security Force Assistance
• Forward deployed, first choice for - Interagency Enabling
- Raids
initial crisis response MEU - Non-Combatant
•Task-organized units forward
CE Evacuations (NEO)
deployed aboard amphibious ships
- Tactical Recovery of Aircraft
• ~ 2,200 Marines and Sailors & Personnel (TRAP)
• 15 days sustainability -Humanitarian Assistance
and Disaster Relief (HA / DR)
- Bilateral Exercises

Battalion Composite Combat Marine

Landing Aviation Logistics Special Ops
Team Squadron Battalion Company

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 Marine Expeditionary
Units (MEU)
(7 MEUs: sourced from NC, CA,
OKI)

11TH MEU
CAMP PENDLETON, CA 22D MEU
CAMP LEJUENE, NC 26TH MEU
15TH MEU USCENTCOM
CAMP PENDLETON, CA

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11 24 26
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3
24TH MEU 1
CAMP PENDLETON, CA
31ST MEU
USPACOM
13TH MEU
USPACOM

PRE-DEPLOYED DEPLOYED POST-DEPLOYED

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 Marine Expeditionary Brigade
(MEB)
• Lead element for MEF
- Counterinsurgency
• 30 days sustainability MEB - Forcible Entry
• MEF deploys to the fight as MEBs CE - Humanitarian Assistance
• Commanded by MajGen / BGen and Disaster Relief (HA / DR)
• 14,000 - 18,000 Marines and Sailors - Amphibious or MPF

Regimental Marine Air Combat

Landing Group Logistics Regt
Team

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 Marine Expeditionary Force
(MEF)
• MEF = principal warfighting organization
- Major Combat Operations (MCO)
• 60 days sustainability
• Commanded by LtGen
MEF - Counterinsurgency
- Forcible Entry
• 40,000-90,000 Marines and Sailors CE

Infantry Marine Air Marine

Division Wing Logistics Grp

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 Marine Special Operations
Command (MARSOC)

• Table of Organization (T/O):

– MSO Battalions
– MSO Advisor Group
– MSO Support Group
– MSO School • Mission:
– Direct Support to MEUs
– Direct Action
– Special Reconnaissance
– Foreign Internal Defense
– Counterterrorism
– Information Operations
– Unconventional Warfare

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 Other Marine Forces & Support

• Alert Contingency MAGTF (ACM)

• Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF)
• Marine Corps Prepositioning Program – Norway
• MEU Augmentation Program – (MAP)

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 Alert Contingency MAGTF (ACM)

• Missions
• Humanitarian assistance / disaster relief
• Limited objective operations
• Limited crisis response operations
• Characteristics
• Air deployable
• Light force
• Resident within each MEF
• Able to respond within 18 hours
• Can be used as:
• Fly-in-echelon for MPF
• Reinforce SP MAGTF
• Reinforce MEU or amphibious force
• Lead element for a MEF
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 Maritime Prepositioning Force
(MPF)

• Three maritime prepositioning

squadrons (MPSRON)
• Each squadron equips a MEB-
sized MAGTF MPSRON 1
• Rapid deployment and assembly MED

• Tailorable to support
Humanitarian Assistance and MPSRON 3
Disaster Relief GUAM
• Includes Mech and Armor MPSRON 2
• 30 days of sustainment DIEGO
GARCIA

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 Maritime Prepositioning Force
(Future) : Speed and Versatility
Support3 Multiple Combatant
LHA(R) MLP
Commander
MLP Security
Cooperation
3 T- Events
14 AKE
LHD T-AKE Ships
2 Legacy T-
AK
T-AKR Diego
Legacy T-AK Garcia
SC MAGTF Afloat JHSVs & MV22s
Model reposition
• Scty Coop, Civ-Mil resources to
Ops, IO support evolving
missions
and …Reinforce Joint
As MULTIPLE Forcible Entry Operatios
Operating Groups
• JTF Enabler
OR • At Sea Arrival & Assembly
As ONE Squadron • At Sea Transfer
• Joint Sustainment Hub
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 Prepositioning Program - Norway

• Formerly called Norway air-landed

MEB (NALMEB)
• Recent equipment usage includes
OIF, OEF, HA in Georgia and USMC
exercises and training
• Currently being reorganized to
support increased flexibility and
interoperability with MPF
• Current equipment deficiencies are
planned for reset by 2013
• Positive “burden sharing”
relationship with Norwegian
Government

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 MEU Augmentation Program
(MAP)

• Located in Kuwait
• Reduces strategic lift requirement to deploy
the MEU’s call-forward equipment from home Kuwait

station
• Originally developed out of CENTCOM theater
specific requirements
• Designed to hold large, heavy theater specific
equipment needed by MEUs operating in and
around CENTCOM AOR like Mine Resistant
Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles
• MAP will continue to evolve into a HQMC
prepositioning program that supports Theater
Security Cooperation activities

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 Joint Seabasing
Enables Improved Global Force Laydown

A National Capability … a Joint Capability …

• Exploits sea as maneuver space 365 days a year

• Enables Coalition / Joint Forces / Interagency
• Maximizes the effects of forward presence
• Optimized footprint ashore
• Supports the full range of military operations

…With Operational Flexibility

• Close, Assemble, Employ, Sustain, Reconstitute – from the Sea

• Freedom of movement and inherent force protection at sea
• Minimizes the vulnerability of iron mountains ashore
• Able to rapidly transition warfighting capabilities ashore
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 2009 Naval Operations Concept
“Sailors, Marines and Coast
Guardsmen should expect to
be engaged in both preventing
and winning wars”
ARG / MEU Security Cooperation
MAGTF

Security Cooperation
MAGTF
MPS

ARG / MEU
Marines aboard GFS
Marines aboard
Security Cooperation GFS Marines aboard
MAGTF ARG / MEU GFS MPS
Marines aboard GFS
Marines aboard
Historical Forward Presence Initiatives GFS MPS
MPS = Maritime Prepositioning Squadron
MEU = Marine Expeditionary Unit
ARG = Amphibious Ready Group

New Forward Presence Initiatives Increasing Tailored Forward Presence

GFS = Global Fleet Station & Mitigating Risk
SCMAGTF = Security Cooperation MAGTF

“Naval forces can use the sea as both maneuver space and as a secure operating
Reservoirs of capability,
area — seabasing — totask organized
overcome to support
challenges the CCDR
to access.”
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 Nation’s Force in Readiness

• Individual Marines are our most potent weapons

• Forward deployed, persistently engaged forces prevent
conflict, mitigate instability and prevail over adversaries
• The Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) as part of a Naval
force provides our Nation’s premier forcible entry force
because of its sustainable power projection capability
• Multicapable MAGTFs and multi-mission platforms
enable rapid and efficient decisive action in the littorals
• More than ever our Nation requires an expeditionary
force in readiness — being expeditionary is an individual
and institutional mindset

“…a versatile expeditionary force in readiness…” 82nd Congress, 1952

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Back Ups
 Expeditionary Force in Readiness
MAGTF: A Modular Force

• Expeditionary equals: • Expeditionary ethos has a

– Combined arms training basis; example is The
– Light enough to get there Basic School (TBS):
– Self-sustaining – Six months of basic infantry
– Strong enough to prevail platoon leader training
– Strategically mobile – For ALL officers regardless of
– Integrated Naval logistics Military Occupational Specialty
(MOS)

MAGTF : Marine Air Ground Task Force

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 Notional SC MAGTF Employment

12 Month SC Schedule XXX Global Fleet

Station
Jan-Feb Naval Infantry Staff III 4
I MEF
Training Mexico 5
Mar-May Partnership for
the Americas SOUTHCOM SC MAGTF
Focused
Jun-Jul Counter-Guerilla Regiment
Training Colombia 1
Jun-Dec Global Fleet Station
4 II I II II
Jul-Aug Combined CAX Brazil 2 CLE
LCE

Aug-Dec UNITAS Arty AH-1Z Brazil

6 AAV UH-1Y
F-35B
Naval Infantry 3
III Combined CAX
Staff Training
5 5
1
5

I
II
SC MAGTF

... … ...
...... USN ...
... LCE
LCE
Riverine
DET II I I
NECC
LCE Det
.. ..
Partnership for
The Americas
< Counter-Guerrilla Training UNITAS
2 3 6
Long War
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Expeditionary Maneuver From the Sea

Aggregate or Distribute Forces Widely… As Required 38

202K
Balanced Expeditionary Capability

SPECTRUM OF CONFLICT

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