USMC Concepts & Programs 2013 - Defense Innovation Marketplace

chapter 3: programs
JOINT, INTERAGENCY, AND MULTI-
NATIONAL (JIM) TRAINING
Leveraging several joint initiatives from the Office
of the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and the newly formed J7 (Joint and Coalition
Warfighting, or JCW) on the Joint Staff, Training and
Education Command incorporates joint, interagency,
and multinational training context into dynamic, capabilities-based
training in support of national security
requirements.
Joint Training
Through the OSD-sponsored Joint National
Training Capability (JNTC), the Training and Education
Command (TECOM) has integrated specific joint
context solutions to identified joint training shortfalls
at U.S. Marine Corps Joint National Training Capability-accredited
programs, which include:
• Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command
(MAGTF TC), Twentynine Palms, California
• Marine Aviation Weapons and
Tactics Squadron-1 (MAWTS-1), Yuma, Arizona
• Marine Air Ground Task Force Staff Training Program
(MSTP), Quantico, Virginia
• Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC),
Bridgeport, California
• Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MC-
TOG), Twentynine Palms, California
The JNTC also provides several tools that support
the incorporation of joint training into Service Title 10
responsibilities. One of these tools is the Joint Training
Enterprise Network (JTEN) that is the communications
network for JNTC. The JTEN is a high-capacity,
reconfigurable network that supports joint training
exercises, and the evaluation of new warfighting concepts.
Additionally, it allows for inter- and intra-Service
forces to link “Service-owned” training and simulation
networks to train in a live, virtual and constructive environment
that blends live tactical forces with manned
simulators and sophisticated computer models. A second
tool is the JNTC sponsored, Joint Training Coordination
Program, which assists Marine Corps JNTCaccredited
programs in gaining participation of others
services at their training and exercises.
Interagency Cooperation
and Training: Interagency Cooperation
and Training
TECOM leverages interagency participation such
as subject matter expert attendance at pre-deployment
training to increase realism and meet mission-training
standards at pre-deployment training programs.
Through efforts with the U.S. Agency for International
Development, the Marine Corps Civil-Military Operations
School, and MCTOG, deploying units have been
trained in the use of the District Stability Framework
assessment tool, which assists commanders with identifying
the root causes of instability in their location,
and target efforts to address these problems. Similarly,
TECOM provides input to civilian training efforts to
make them more accessible to Marine units, such as the
Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Development
for Afghanistan Pre-Deployment Training program.
TECOM also assists the State Department’s Bureau
of Conflict and Stabilization Operations by supporting
annual training aboard Marine Corps Base (MCB)
Quantico for a civilian capstone exercise centering on
the Civilian Response Corps.
Multinational Training
Coalition partners are invited to participate in
service-level training when feasible and relevant. One
focus area is on operational level interaction, primarily
through coordination and reciprocal participation in
mission rehearsal exercises with partner nations where
USMC units will serve as higher headquarters during
current operations. Additionally, institutional-level
interoperability is being pursued through staff and
instructor exchange programs in respective training
organizations. Opportunities to incorporate coalition
partners into MAGTF TC training events such as En-
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