Ground Combat Forces: The Marine Corps Should Take Actions to Track Training Funds and Link Them to Readiness

Abstract

The Marine Corps continues to request more money to train its forces on day-to-day operations and to prepare them for rapid deployment. However, a congressional report said that the Corps' budget estimates haven't included sufficient detail for Congress to determine what benefits more funding would bring. We found that the Marine Corps can't fully track training funds or link them to mission readinessits ability to fight and meet its assigned missions. We recommended that the Marine Corps better align its efforts to track funds through the budget cycle and designate an entity to oversee a process that links dollars to readiness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 2019
Accession Number
AD1153225

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth Field

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Budget Estimates
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Forces
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Systems
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Training
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Rapid Deployment
  • Resource Management
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.