The Field Training Manual has been prepared to serve as a guide for Marine Option Midshipmen and MECEP students who will participate in Officer Candidates School. TABLE OF CONTENTS - 1. Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia 2. Mission of the Officer Candidates School 3. Reporting/Outposting Information CHAPTER II - 1. Training Organization 2. Leadership Billets 3. Quarters 4. Messing 5. Pay 6. Club Facilities 7. Daily Rou...
This document was written to provide a personal overview of each Marine Officer Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). Its primary purpose is to give Marine lieutenants an overview of officer's MOSs to assist them in deciding their preferences for MOS selection at The Basic School (TBS). The committee members were all Amphibious Warfare Students (AWC-00), Marine captains, with one or two tours experience, and five to eight years in service. Pl...
Naval Aviation forces are forward, engaged and ready-every day. Expeditionary forces, amphibious forces, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, air wings, manned and unmanned platforms, rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft are on station, valued and in increasingly higher demand. No other service or community can deliver the capabilities Naval Aviation brings in support of our national interests. It is a national priority to sustain, resource and ultim...
Excerpt from Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant MarinePoint, New York, and the Cadet Basic Schools at Pass Christian, Mississippi, and San Mateo, California.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...
Excerpt from Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant MarinePoint, New York, and the Cadet Basic Schools at Pass Christian, Mississippi, and San Mateo, California.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...
Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 4-11.8B, War Crimes Investigation, helps Marines determine when specific actions violate the laws of war. This publication provides all Marines with an understanding of their responsibility when noncompliance with or breaches of the law of war are suspected.
It takes much more than the knowledge and skills to build shelters, get food, make fires, and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successfully through a survival situation. Some people with little or no survival training have managed to survive life-threatening circumstances. Some people with survival training have not used their skills and died. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of t...
Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 6-22, Communications and Information Systems, provides the doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures for the conduct of communications and information systems across the spectrum of Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) operations. Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 6-22C, Radio Operator's Handbook, complements and expands upon this information by detailing doctrine, tactics, techniques,...
Communications and information systems (CIS) support collecting, processing, and exchanging information. CIS automate routine functions, freeing commanders and staffs to focus on the aspects of command and control that require experience, judgment, and intuition. Personnel who install, operate, and maintain CIS play a key role in the command and control of the Marine airground task force (MAGTF). It is an understatement to say that the success...
Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3-31B, Amphibious Ships and Landing Craft Data Book, is for use in planning where generalized capabilities and measurements are required. In planning for operations where exact capabilities and figures are required, the individual ship's loading characteristics pamphlet (SLCP) must be consulted.
MCWP 2-12.1 describes aspects of geographic intelligence operations, including doctrinal fundamentals, command and control, communications and information systems support, planning, execution, equipment, security, and training. MCWP 2-12.1 provides the information Marines needed to understand, plan, and execute geographic intelligence operations in support of the MAGTF.
MCWP 2-14 describes aspects of CI operations across the spectrum of MAGTF, naval, joint and multinational operations, including doctrinal fundamentals, equipment, command and control, communications and information systems support, planning, execution, security, and training. MCWP 2-14 provides the information needed by Marines to understand, plan, and execute CI operations in support of the MAGTF across the spectrum of conflict.
The MCWP 2-12 provides the information needed by Marines to understand, plan, and execute intelligence production and analysis to support MAGTF operations. It describes intelligence doctrinal fundamentals, the nature of analytical thinking, intelligence preparation of the battlespace, and intelligence support to targeting. This publication also discusses intelligence command and control, communications and information systems support, intellig...
The US has renounced first use of herbicides in war except under regulations applicable to domestic use or for control of vegetation within US bases and installations and around their immediate perimeters. The US has renounced the first use of RCAs in war. US forces will only use RCAs in war in defensive modes to save lives as approved by the President. In wartime, use of RCAs outside the war zone is authorized as prescribed for peacetime.
