Headquartered in the Gen. Raymond G. Davis Center at 3300 Russell Road, the Marine Corps Combat Development Command was created on Nov. 10, 1987 by the 28th commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. P.X. Kelly. Thecommand is comprised of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Capabilities Development Directorate (formerly the Expeditionary Force Development Center), Training and Education Command, and Marine CorpsBase Quantico.

The commanding general, MCCDC, as deputy commandant for Combat Development and Integration through the Capabilities Development Directorate, is the owner of the Expeditionary Force Development System. The EFDS process encompasses all activities and organizations required toproduce, improve and sustain combat-ready Marine Air–Ground Task Forces for deployment. Focusing on Service and Joint Operations, the EFDS process integrates combat development across all functional warfighting areas both internally to the Marine Corps, and externally in the Joint environment. Web site: www.mccdc.usmc.mil.

Seabasing Integration Division
The Seabasing Integration Division develops andpromulgates the Marine Corps ship-based (Amphibious, Prepositioning, and Craft) warfighting capabilities and requirements within the Naval Capabilities Development Process. Further, SBID determines and informs associated required capabilities in the areas of doctrine, organization, training and education, equipment, and support facilities to ensure the Marine Corps is fully supported by the Navy ship building plan so that combat ready forces are capable of full participation in and support of expeditionary missions. SBID's focus areas include: MPF (Future), Joint High Speed Vessel, strategic lift, LHA (Replacement), future ship requirements, amphibious lift requirements, and Seabasing experimentation requirements.

Capabilities Development Directorate
The Capabilities Development Directorate, MCCDC's custodian of the Expeditionary Force Development System, is located in the General Raymond G. Davis Center. The CDD, responsible to the deputy commandant for Combat Development and Integration, is the integrating body that conducts combat development using the DoD capabilities-based planning process. In concert with Marine Corps advocates, proponents, MARFORs and the supporting establishment, the CDD ensures the fielding of all warfighting capabilities are integrated across the spectrum of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities. The EFDS is a formal system of processes, decision points, and functions that produce integrated capabilities, based on evolving and future warfighting concepts and capabilities, that provide identified required capabilities to the operating forces and combatant commanders.

The CDD is comprised of seven Integration Divisions and the Total Force Structure Division.

MAGTF Intergration Division
The MAGTF ID integrates across all functional warfighting integration divisions. The MID oversees several important capability development events such as the Front End Assessment. The MID also develops, monitors, and maintains the Expeditionary Capabilities List, the MAGTF Requirements List, and manages the Universal Needs Statement process. Integral to the MID is the imbedded joint, multinational and MAGTF doctrine section, and a JCIDS requirements documentation staff.

Fires and Maneuver Integration Division
The Fires and Maneuver Integration Division's mission is to integrate future and evolving air and ground concepts with identified capabilities, requirements, and supporting programs to synchronize Marine Corps initiatives and shape naval and joint initiatives within the JCIDS process. The FMID responsibilities include operational capability development for aviation, tactical mobility and counter mobility, infantry, special operations, fire support, armor, unmanned systems, and information operations.

Intelligence Integration Division
The Intelligence Integration Division integrates Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise requirements over the near (2005-2011), mid (2012-2018), and far-term (2019+) horizons. The IID coordinates closely with CDD’s functional integration divisions to ensure the responsiveness and effectiveness of MCISR-E support to the MAGTF Commander across the spectrum of joint and combined military operations. In conjunction with the Marine Corps advocates, the MARFORs, and the joint community, IID continually shapes Marine Corps intelligence capabilities in the context of current challenges and emerging concepts, to include the Global War on Terrorism and the Marine Corps concepts of Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare, Distributed Operations, and Ship To Objective Maneuver. The division’s broad focus spans the DOTMLPF considerations inherent in USMC capabilities that enable all phases of the intelligence cycle.

Logisitics Integration Division
The LID's mission is to integrate future and evolving logistics concepts with identified capabilities, requirements, doctrinal publications, and supporting programs to synchronize Marine Corps initiatives and shape naval and joint initiatives within the JCIDS process. This very broad combat support and combat service support functional area includes the following responsible areas: Transportation, supply, engineering, ammunition, medical⁄health systems support, and all echelons of ground and aviation maintenance. The LID's items of interest include the future high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle, logistics transfer vehicle armoring, logistics vehicle system replacement, autonomic logistics, and health service support reorganization.

Command and Control IntegrationDivision (C2ID)
The C2ID's mission is to lead the Marine Corps command and control capabilities development process by integrating evolving and future C2 concepts with identified requirements and supporting programs, in order to synchronize Marine Corps, naval, and joint C2 initiatives. Divided into a MAGTF C2 Branch, External Integration Branch, and a Capabilities Branch, C2 ID is responsible for or active in the following area ⁄ warfighting functions: MAGTF C2, MAGTF C2 CONOPs IPR, Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness, Joint Battle Management C2, Joint Tactical COP Workstation, Marine Corps Common Hardware Suite, JCIDS Capabilities Toolkit, C2 JIC, FORCENET, Combat Identification, among others.

Force Protection Integration Division
The FPID's mission is to integrate future and evolving force protection concepts, with identified capabilities, requirements, and supporting programs to synchronize Marine Corps initiatives and shape naval and joint initiatives within the JCIDS process. The FPID's focus is on combat force protection issues dealing with explosive hazards, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear defense, missile defense, and non-lethal weapons.

Total Forces Structure Division
The Total Force Structure Division's mission is to provide and maintain optimal force structure for the Marine Corps through the integration of the active, reserve, and civilian manpower structure in concert with the equipment required to perform the Marine Corps mission. The TFSD actively interacts with all advocates, proponents, Marine forces, and the supporting establishment to shape and define force structure requirements. TFSD oversees two major USMC initiatives: the Force Structure Review Group and the Marine Corps Equipment Review Group.

Operations Analysis Division
The Operations’ Analysis Division is the Marine Corps focal point for operations research, analytic support and studies management. It provides critical support to the operating forces and the Expeditionary Force Development System by blending a comprehensive understanding of military operations with advanced analytic and decision-making tools, to include a wide range of computer-based models and combat simulations. These tools are employed to assist the commanding general at MCCDC with his mission of creating and maintaining combat-ready MAGTFs. The Operations Analysis Division's primary mission is to assist the Marine Corps in making decisions about weapon systems, equipment acquisition and resource allocation. A continuous program of mission area analyses, formal studies, rapid response analytic efforts and the supervision of research projects fulfill this mission. The division provides combat analyst assessment teams for national emergencies and contingencies. The division is responsible for initiating, conducting or supervising all official Marine Corps studies, maintaining official Marine Corps scenarios, and participating in and reviewing the efforts of external activities such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff. The division is organized into four branches to support its multi-faceted mission: Analysis Branch, Mission Area Analysis Branch, Joint and External Analysis Branch, and Marine Corps

Studies System Management Branch. Details on past and ongoing studies can be found at www.mccdc.usmc.mil.

Warfighting Laboratory
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory was established in October 1995 at the direction of the commandant of the Marine Corps. Originally known as the Commandant’s Warfighting Laboratory, its name changed in June 1997 when it was officially integrated into MCCDC.

Located in Building 3255, Newlin Hall, the Lab’s purpose is to improve naval expeditionary warfighting capabilities across the spectrum of conflict for current and future operating forces. The Lab does this through service and joint experimentation,to evaluate new tactics, techniques, procedures and technologies; and forwarding results of experimentation tothe Combat Development System with recommendations for action.

The Lab also plays a key role in Navy-Marine Corps science and technology efforts and has an official relationship with the Office of Naval Research, located in Arlington, Va. Thecommanding general of the Lab serves as the vice chief of Naval Research at ONR.

The Lab is made up of nine separate divisions: Science & Technology, Operations, Concepts, Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, Wargaming, Joint Concept Development Experimentation, Sea Viking Plans, Experimentation and Technology. MCWL’s Web site is www.mcwl.quantico.usmc.mil. The Wargaming Division’s Web site is www.wargaming.quantico. usmc.mil.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION COMMAND

Mission Statement
The mission of the Training and Education Command, located in Building 1019, is to develop,coordinate, resource, execute and evaluate training and educationconcepts, policies, plans and programs to ensure Marines are prepared to meet the challenges of present and future operational environments.

TECOM was established within the MCCDC on July 1, 2000. The commanding general of TECOM assists the commanding general of MCCDC in fulfilling the commandant’s Title 10 responsibilities regarding the training and education of Marines. The elements of the command located aboard Quantico consist of Training Command, Education Command (Marine Corps University), MAGTF Staff Training Program Center, College of Continuing Education, Security Cooperation Education and Training Center. and the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned. Web site: www.tecom.usmc.mil.

Marine Air-Ground Task ForceStaff Training Program
The Marine Air-Ground Task Force Staff Training Program Center is located in Buildings 2042 and 2084. The mission of MSTP is to provide training in MAGTF warfighting skills, within the context of a joint and combined environment, in order to improve the warfighting skills of senior commanders and their staffs and to provide feedback into the Expeditionary Force Development System. The program focuses its efforts at the Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Expeditionary Brigade levels. The MSTP staff provides training to the MEFs and MEBs in support of the training objectives established by the senior commanders of those organizations. The training is doctrinally based and is designed to enhance the capability of the Operating Forces to meet current and near-term operational requirements. MSTP also assists in the development of Marine Corps doctrine, provides instruction to the Marine Corps University, and conducts the General Officer Warfighting Program. MSTP operates the Battle Staff Training Facility, which develops processes and procedures to enable the Operating Forces to use current C4I and Modeling & Simulation technology in an integrated manner to support MAGTF planning, operations and training. MSTP is composed of a Headquarters Branch, Operations Branch, MAGTF Branch, Exercise Design Branch, Command and Control Support Branch, Modeling and Simulation Branch, Command and Control Training and Education Center of Excellence and MSTP Reserve Detachment. Additionally, MSTP uses Senior Mentors, (retired Marine Corps general officers personally selected by thecommandant) to provide experienced-based counsel, advice and recommendations to the senior commanders, their staffs, and the MSTP staff.

Security Cooperation Education andTraining Center
Assigned to TECOM, the Security Cooperation Education and Training Center is a Marine Corps asset. The mission of the center is to manage and coordinate Marine Corps education and training programs in support of Department of Defense security cooperation and security assistance efforts to enhance interoperability with allied and coalition partners in the conduct of traditional and irregular warfare and in support of the global struggle against violent extremism. This includes coordinating and tracking CONUS-based Marine Corps education and training programs for international students; preparing and deploying security cooperation teams and advisors to execute OCONUS missions not executed by operational forces; and providing a link to governmental and non-governmental organizations in support of USMC efforts in humanitarian operations. Normally located in Building 3094, the center is temporarily located in buildings 3035 and 3028 while Building 3094 is renovated.

Web site: http:⁄⁄scetc.tecom.usmc.mil.

Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned
The Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned is located in Building 1776. The mission of the MCCLL is to support the CMC in his Title 10 responsibilities. The MCCLL collects, analyzes, manages, and disseminates knowledge gained from exercises and operations. The MCCLL manages the Marine Corps Lessons Management System, a centralized searchable database of lessons, observations, tactics, techniques, and procedures. Web site: www.mccll.usmc.mil⁄.

Center for Advanced OperationalCulture Learning
Established in May 2005, the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning is the Marine Corps’ culture and operational language Center of Excellence. CAOCL ensures Marines are equipped with operationally relevant regional,culture and language knowledge, to allow them to plan and operate successfully in the joint and combined expeditionary environment:

• In any region of the world
• In current and potential operating environments
• Targeting emerging irregular and traditional threats

CAOCL’s mission is to promote an understanding ofcultural issues and ensure warfighters grasp culture as acomponent of operational planning. CAOCL provides Marines with the knowledge to leverage cultural factors in order to gain a tactical advantage. The center serves as the Corps’“one-stop“ to coordinate targeted culture⁄language training for deploying forces.

Web site: www.tecom.usmc.mil⁄caocl⁄

TRAINING COMMAND

Mission Statement
Training Command, headquarters located in Butler Hall Building 1019, has the mission to coordinate, resource,execute and evaluate training concepts, policies, plans andprograms to ensure Marines are trained to a common standard in order to meet the challenges of present and futureoperational environments. To that end, Training Command is responsible for the 12 formal Marine Corps schools and 42 Marine detachments at other service locations.

Training Command is tasked to analyze, develop, publish, review, and revise individual training standards, mission performance standards, core competencies, training and readiness manuals; to review and approve formal courses of instruction to obtain, coordinate, adjudicate and publish the Marine Corps’ formal school training requirements; to provide technical guidance, instruction, and assistance for planning and designing formal courses of instruction; and to provide a single point of contact linkage to other services on all issues pertaining to interservice formal school house training. A number of the formal schools are designated as the centers of Excellence for a particular mission area; examples at Quantico are the Martial Arts Center of excellence at The Basic School and Weapons Training Battalion for marksmanship. Web site: www.tecom.usmc.mil⁄tcom⁄.

Officer Candidates School
Officer Candidates School, a formal school within Training Command, located on Brown Field, has been at Quantico since 1935. The school annually trains, evaluates and screens more than 2,500 officer candidates to ensure that they possess the moral, intellectual and physical qualities for commissioning and the leadership potential to serve successfully as company-grade officers in the operating forces. The Officer Candidates Class, Platoon Leaders Class (junior, senior and combined), and the Bulldog Program (NROTC) are conducted at OCS.

The Basic School
The Basic School, a formal school within Training Command, is located at Camp Barrett. Each year the school educates more than 1,700 newly commissioned or appointed officers in the high standards of professional knowledge, esprit de corps and leadership required to prepare them for duty as company grade officers in the Fleet Marine Force operating forces with particular emphasis on the duties, responsibilities and warfighting skills required of a rifle platoon commander.

TBS also conducts the Infantry Officer Course to provide additional infantry skill training for officers in preparation for duty as platoon commanders of rifle, weapons, anti-armor, heavy machine guns and mortar platoons within the infantrybattalion and as platoon commanders within the light armored reconnaissance battalion. Additionally, TBS is the home of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence.

Web site: www.tbs.usmc.mil⁄.

Weapons Training Battalion
Weapons Training Battalion, part of Training Command and the Marine Corps Center of Excellence for Marksmanship, schedules, coordinates and executes rifle and pistol qualifications for newly commissioned Marine officers, as well as re-qualification for all Quantico Marines. The battalion, located in Building 27211, provides facilities and training for reserve units, Marine Corps Security Guard Battalion and numerous other organizations. Training and range support is alsoprovided to federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as numerous state and local law enforcement agencies.

Weapons Training Battalion is the parent organization of the United States Marine Corps Shooting Teams, encompassing the rifle, pistol, and international teams. Additionally, the battalion is the home of the Marine Corps Scout Sniper Instructor courses; Dynamic Entry School courses; High Risk Personnel Course; Small Arms Weapons Instructor course, Marksmanship Instructor Courses (Regular and Reserve) and a six-week Range Officers Course.The battalion has the only authorized weapons manufacturing and testing facility, with an organic ammunition loading capability, in the Marine Corps. The battalion builds and maintains the M40A1 and M40A3 sniper rifles, various Marine Expeditionary Unit (special operations capable) weapons and all the competition rifles and pistols in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve. The ammunition loading facility hand loads high power ammunition for the rifle team, for special operations, and for testing new weapons and bullets.

The battalion’s Marksmanship Programs Management Section functions as the single point of contact on marksmanship matters for the Marine Corps.

Web site: www.tecom.usmc.mil⁄wtbn⁄.

Command and Control Systems School
The Command and Control Systems School, a formal school within Training Command, located at Edson Hall, was established at Quantico in June 1, 1944. Command and Control Systems School is the C4 Center of Excellence for Planning and Management. CCSS presents six courses:

• Communication Information Systems Officer Course
• C4 Planner’s Course, Advance Communication Information Systems Course
• Communications Information Systems Refresher Course
• C4 Warrant Officer’s Course
• Tactical Cryptographic Communications Course

CISOC produces lieutenants able to meet the challenges of the operating forces. The 23-week curriculum is a demanding one, and the students are kept extremely busy. C4PC prepares 0602 captains to function as MAGTF G-6 Plans Officers, JTF J-6 plans officers, or system planning and engineering officers. This instruction focuses on data network planning and management and Annex K development down to the cut sheet level. ACIS provides field grade 0602 officers an overview of current and future issues in the C4 field, to include joint issues. CISOR is a course for non-0602 officers filling 0602 billets. It provides basic 0602 military occupational specialty instruction. The C4 Warrant Officer Course provides entry-leveltraining to warrant officers in the C4 occupational field,specifically the 2510, 2810, and 4010 MOSs. The course provides MOS specific instruction and includes familiarizationtraining concerning the planning considerations of the other two C4 warrant officer MOSs.

Finally, the Tactical Cryptographic Communications Course provides entry-level tactical communications and information systems training to signal intelligence officers.

Web site: www.tecom.usmc.mil⁄tcom⁄

Marine Corps University
Marine Corps University develops leaders of strong moral character, intellectual agility, and physical endurance, in order to serve our nation in war and peace. The main campus is located on the banks of the Potomac River just south of the Town of Quantico. University Headquarters is in Breckinridge Hall, located in Building 2076. The university is comprised of the Marine Corps War College, Command and Staff College, School of Advanced Warfighting, Expeditionary Warfare School, Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academies throughout the world, and the College of Continuing Education. MCU also runs the History and Museums Division and the General Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center, bringing to fruition the Marine Corps’ vision of providing a world-class institution that educates Marines in the art of war and produces leaders with the confidence and vision to exercise sound military judgment in battle.

MCU hosts the Commanders Course and Senior Leader Development Program. The Commanders Course is asemi-annual resident program of instruction for colonels and lieutenant colonels selected for command. It providesinformation concerning up-to-date policies and programs that will guide them in the execution of their future duties. The Senior Leader Development Program provides formalized, executive-level education to Marine Corps general officers and members of the Senior Executive Service.

The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to confer master’s degrees.

Web site: www.mcu.usmc.mil.

Marine Corps War College
The mission of the Marine Corps War College is to educate selected senior officers and civilians for decision-making during war and military operations other than war in a joint, interagency, and multinational environment. The MCWAR graduates are prepared to assume senior leadership positions of increasing complexity through the study of national military strategy, theater strategy and plans, and military support to those strategies within the context of national security policies, decision-making, objectives and resources. Unique aspects of the curriculum include active learning seminars with prominent guests, frequent trips to national agencies in the Washington, D.C., area, and national and international travel to visit unifiedcommanders and their staffs to learn more about their areas of responsibility. The MCWAR offers a masters degree in Strategic Studies.

Command and Staff College
The Command and Staff College, located in Breckinridge Hall, provides field grade officers of the Marine Corps and other U.S. services, as well as officers from designated foreign countries, the intermediate level professional military education required to function in command and staff assignments with joint, combined, service and other high-level military organizations. Emphasis is on duties with MAGTFs at the Marine expeditionary force level operating in a joint and⁄or combined environment. A guest-lecture program includes high-level government officials and members of the academic community. The instruction is presented in the setting of field-grade workshops requiring individual and group problem solving enhanced by extensive student exercises, computer-assisted battlesimulations and historical battle studies. Command and Staff College offers a masters degree in Military Studies.

School of Advanced Warfighting
Also in Breckinridge Hall, the School of Advanced Warfighting provides a graduate-level professional military education for select field grade officers of the Marine Corps, other U.S. services, and selected foreign countries. The goal of SAW is to enhance officers’ operational-level decision making skills so they can contribute more effectively to the nation’s armed forces in meeting the demands of the future. The curriculum is designed as a progressive study of the framework for military institutions and how nations prepare for war. The courseanalyzes recent and contemporary military history, focusing on problems that military leaders faced and the subsequentinfluence their solution had on military institutions. The instruction is presented in the setting of a graduate seminar where the emphasis is on active learning and problem solving.

Expeditionary Warfare School
The Expeditionary Warfare School was established at Quantico in 1921 and resides in Geiger Hall. The presentnine-month school provides career-level professional military education with emphasis on combined arms operations, warfighting skills, tactical decision-making, and MAGTFs in amphibious operations. The school prepares Marine captains to function as commanders and staff officers at appropriate levels within the operating forces. In addition, EWS provides career-level professional military education to selected officers from the Marine Corps Reserve.

Essential to this education is the development of thestudents’ communication skills and leadership abilities. Occupational Field Expansion Courses in ground combat,aviation and combat service support supplement the corecurriculum to more fully prepare graduates for anticipatedbillets in the operating forces.

Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academy
The Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academy,headquartered at the main campus, was established in February 1971. The academy offers noncommissioned and staff noncommissioned officers the requisite professionalmilitary education leadership training that enhances theirprofessional qualifications in preparation for assuming duties of greater responsibility.

The Quantico-based academy is specifically dedicated to the validation of all enlisted PME for all academies located at Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Twentynine Palms, Calif.; Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; and Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan.

College of Continuing Education
Established May 1, 1997, the College of Continuing Education is the university’s PME school responsible for advancing the Distance Education Programs of the university’s Expeditionary Warfare School and Command and Staff College resident schools. Located on the main campus in Building 3092, the CCE supports career PME for Marines, serves as a center for scholarship and distance learning expertise, and ensures that Marines have opportunities to pursue PME through Distance Education Programs (formerly designated as the nonresident programs).

The centerpiece of the CCE concept is the establishment of seven satellite campuses aboard major bases and stations, including Marine Forces Reserve. Regional coordinatorsmanage all satellite campus activities and work closely with local commanders to improve PME opportunities for all Marines. Satellite campuses are located at Quantico, Camp Lejeune, N.C., Cherry Point, N.C., Camp Pendleton, Calif., Miramar, Calif., Hawaii, and Okinawa, Japan. Marines canregister for programs, obtain information, and connect with other students in their area by contacting their regionalcoordinator.

Gen. Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center
The Gray Research Center is a 100,500 square-foot facility specifically designed to meet the growing information needs of a global force in readiness as the Corps enters the 21stcentury.

The mission of the GRC is to support the Marine Corps by providing a comprehensive facility for the studyof expeditionary and amphibious warfighting. The GRC focuses on linking scholarly research and schools of professional military education with lessons learned from the field in order to stimulate the development of successful concepts, doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures. A comprehensive collection of traditional library, research and archival material is readily available to anyone visiting the facility. The GRC ultimately will contain over 500,000 items, including maps, books, reports, annuals and historically significant planning documents. The GRC itself consists of five functional areas: the James Carson Breckinridge Professional Library, the research library⁄patron work area, the MCCS Family Library, the Marine Corps University Archives, and the Marine Corps Lessons Learned Library. In addition, patrons visiting the GRC are able to access a variety of electronic bulletin boards, on-line electronic databases and CD-ROM titles. Because the GRC’s bibliographic and on-line databases are linked to the worldwide Marine Corps data network, Marines can access this informational resource from anywhere in the world.