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chapter 3: programs
visibility, urban, rural, joint, and interagency missions,
units are provided a live-fire, combined-arms training
venue that closely resembles the conditions in which
they will operate once deployed.
Mountain Exercise
Mountain Exercise is a 28-day, Block 3 Marine Air
Ground Task Force (MAGTF) exercise conducted at
the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center
(MCMWTC) at Bridgeport, California. This exercise
focuses on military mountaineering technical skills,
and tactical operations across the warfighting functions,
at medium to high altitudes in complex and
compartmentalized terrain and in all weather conditions.
The exercise is also conducted on the Lucky Boy
Pass unimproved road network and the Hawthorne
Army Depot (HWAD), Hawthorne, Nevada; Ryan
Canyon Road’s unimproved road network, and Naval
Air Station Fallon, Nevada.
Mountain Exercise includes the following five
phases:
• Phase I, Preparation and Deployment, involves selected
individuals attending the MCMWTC formal
programs of instruction, which are focused at conducting
operations in mountainous, medium to high
altitude, and in a cold-weather environment. Phase I
also includes the arrival of the units’ advanced and
main body, pre-environment training, the staff participating
in the Mountain Operations Staff Planning
Course, and a communication exercise.
• Phase II, Shaping, is focused on Basic Mobility, including
military mountaineering mobility, survival,
and technical skills and a company-platoon exercise.
• Phase III, Decisive Action, is focused on conducting
offensive, defensive, joint, and coalition operations.
• Phase IV, Security and Stability Operations, is focused
on mounted/dismounted counter-improvised
explosive device training patrolling operations, military
operations on urban terrain (MOUT), cultural
engagements, and limited combined arms company
live fire.
• Phase V, Redeployment, is focused on the unit retrograding
to its home station.
COMMAND AND CONTROL
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
(C2TECOE)
Description
The Command and Control Training and Education
Center of Excellence (C2 TECOE) serves as the
central Marine Corps agency for command and control
training and education issues through all levels of
Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) commanders
and their staffs. In conjunction with appropriate Training
and Education Command (TECOM) staff sections,
it provides integrated and timely coordinated solutions
for validated C2 training and education requirements
among TECOM, the operating forces, the Advocates,
Headquarters Marine Corps, Marine Corps Systems
Command (MCSC), the Marine Corps Warfighting
Lab (MCWL), and selected joint, service, and coalition
agencies. Additionally, it identifies, tracks, and investigates
the potential impacts of future MAGTF warfighting
requirements or prospective changes within the C2
training and education continuum.
Operational Impact
The C2 TECOE provides Active and Reserve Component
commanders, their staffs, and individual Marines
timely and relevant home-station and mobile
training team training in the art and science of command
and control to enable them to act more decisively
and effectively than the enemy. C2 TECOE works
in concert with the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations
Group (MCTOG), the Marine Corps Logistics
Operations Group (MCLOG), Marine Aviation Warfare
Training Squadron (MAWTS)-1, and the MAGTF
Staff Training Program (MSTP). The Center advances
the mastery of command and control in the operating
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