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integration. MCTOG also supports unit readiness
planning at the company, battalion, and regiment levels
to support GCE training and readiness events. This
is accomplished through the Tactical MAGTF Integration
Course (TMIC). In addition, MCTOG provides
advanced collective training to company through regiment
battle staffs by executing the Battle Staff Training
Program (BSTP). Lastly, MCTOG serves as the
proponent lead to develop specified GCE publications,
ensures GCE doctrine is nested and consistent both
horizontally and vertically within the MAGTF construct,
and ensures GCE doctrine and individual and
collective training and readiness events are mutually
supporting to enhance the combat readiness of GCE
units.
Operations and Tactics
Training Program
The OTTP increases combat effectiveness by developing
a professional training culture, institutionalizing
standardization, and accelerating innovation at
all levels within the GCE. The three pillars of the OTTP
are the TMIC, the BSTP, and the synchronization of
GCE Doctrine and training and readiness events. The
desired end state of the OTTP encompasses the following
objectives:
• Ensure full interoperability of GCE units through
standardization of tactics, techniques, and procedures
in publications and in practice in the operating
forces
• Inculcate GCE companies, battalions, and regiments
with a higher level of training capability and rigor
across the warfighting functions
• Codify and provide the training requirements for key
GCE staff members to build expertise in the training,
preparation, and employment of GCE units on the
complex battlefields of the future
• Implement mechanisms to ensure GCE doctrine,
standards, training, and requirements maintain pace
with the changing threat environment and emerging
operational concepts
• Enhance GCE unit preparation/performance in
combat operations
Tactical MAGTF Integration Course
and Ground Operations Chief Course
(GOCC)
The blended TMIC and GOCC are the method used
to train and certify Operations and Tactics Instructors
(OTIs) for the GCE. The GCE Operations Officer and
Operations Chief must be certified as an OTI prior to
being assigned to their designated billet. The OTIs are
the unit proponents of standardization and, as such, assist
the commander in the preparation of the unit for
combat, tactical planning, and command and control
of operations. The OTIs assist their commanders with
the identification of unit-specific training requirements
and deficiencies as a result of evolving operational and
threat environments. OTIs support the GCE by being:
• Master training designers able to implement and
manage the unit readiness program
• Skilled in the art and science of planning and executing
operations in complex environments
• Skilled in the art and science of command and control
across the range of military operations
• Proponents of standardization to enable integration
and interoperability with external organizations and
enablers
• Advocates of best practices, lessons learned, resources,
and emerging concepts.
Intelligence Tactics Instructor
Course
Intelligence Officers and Chiefs are a secondary
training audience during the execution of TMIC. A
gap analysis determined that intelligence officers and
chiefs assigned to GCE units lacked certain capabilities
and understanding of GCE operations. The Intelligence
Department of HQMC, in concert with TECOM
and MCTOG, developed a six-week parallel-tracked
GCE Intelligence Tactics Instructor (ITI) Course that
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