The Increase in Training Requirements is Having an Adverse Impact on Technical MOS Proficiency

Abstract

What the Marine Corps is currently asking its Marines to accomplish is impossible. Every day, Marines throughout the Corps are asked to take on more training at the expense of maintaining proficiency in their own military occupational specialty (MOS). The Marine Corps must eliminate extraneous annual and pre-deployment training requirements to allow Marines to attain proficiency with new technologies and maintain enduring MOS proficiency. The Marine Corps has too many annual, semi-annual, and predeployment training requirements. These requirements must be reduced to allow Marines to maintain a high level of technical readiness. Failure to do so will result in a unit focused solely on reportable requirements and a poor level of technical proficiency, especially on new equipment. Ultimately, technical competency ensures combat effectiveness and force protection on the battlefield.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2009
Accession Number
ADA510298

Entities

People

  • N. B. Cahoon

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Force Protection
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Operations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Fitness
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare

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