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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ian Bergman, a cyberspace warfare operator with I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Defensive Cyber Operations Internal Defensive Measures team, poses for a photo at 9th Communication Battalion on Camp Pendleton, California June 29, 2022. I MEF’s DCO-IDM team won the Deputy Commandant for Information, Marine Corps “Capture the Flag” Cyber Games 2022. - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ian Bergman, a cyberspace warfare operator with I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Defensive Cyber Operations Internal Defensive Measures team, poses for a photo at 9th Communication Battalion on Camp Pendleton, California June 29, 2022. I MEF’s DCO-IDM team won the Deputy Commandant for Information, Marine Corps “Capture the Flag” Cyber Games 2022.

Solving for X: I MEF Cyber Team Wins DOD Virtual Capture the Flag Competition

On April 8, 2022, after four days and thirteen hours of putting their defensive cyber operations capabilities to the test, I Marine Expeditionary Force’s DCO-Internal Defensive Measures emerged victorious from the Deputy Commandant for Information, Marine Corps “Capture the Flag” Cyber Games 2022. This fourth iteration of the Marine Corps Cyber Games, hosted at the Naval Air Warfare Center via the National Cyber Range in Orlando, Florida; was the first to force teams to focus on defensive cyber skills rather than offensive cyber skills...

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A U.S. Marine with 3d Platoon, Lima Company, 3d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Ground Combat Element, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin 22, helps a simulated casualty off of the battlefield during a simulated combat defense as part of exercise Southern Jackaroo 22 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, May 21, 2022. Southern Jackaroo is a multilateral exercise carried out by Marines with MRF-D, the Australian Army and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers, focusing on live-fire and combined arms training. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Cedar Barnes) - A U.S. Marine with 3d Platoon, Lima Company, 3d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Ground Combat Element, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin 22, helps a simulated casualty off of the battlefield during a simulated combat defense as part of exercise Southern Jackaroo 22 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, May 21, 2022. Southern Jackaroo is a multilateral exercise carried out by Marines with MRF-D, the Australian Army and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers, focusing on live-fire and combined arms training. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Cedar Barnes)

Australia, Japan, and the United States Integrate to Prove Lethal during Exercise SOUTHERN JACKAROO

Marine Rotational Force-Darwin participated in Exercise SOUTHERN JACKAROO 22, a tri-lateral infantry integration exercise featuring Marines and Sailors with MRF-D, Australian Defense Force members, and Japanese Ground Self Defense Force personnel from May 10 – May 31. SOUTHERN JACKAROO 22 took place at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, and incorporated 400 Australian Soldiers, and nearly 100 Japanese Soldiers, along with a Marine Corps rifle company from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. The three allied forces combined to share tactics, techniques, and procedures while also enhancing interoperability capabilities.

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Modern Day Marine 2022: Day Three

The final day of Modern Day Marine 2022 brought insights on the way ahead for human performance and talent management initiatives in the Marine Corps. Attendees listened in on two significant panel discussions and heard the latest updates on Talent Management 2030 and Training and Education 2030.

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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Haydon R. King, a meteorology and oceanography (METOC) analyst forecaster with Marine Corps Air Facilities Quantico, reads the information off of an anemometer at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Jan. 26, 2022. The anemometer is a weather instrument used to read both wind speed and direction. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kayla LaMar) - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Haydon R. King, a meteorology and oceanography (METOC) analyst forecaster with Marine Corps Air Facilities Quantico, reads the information off of an anemometer at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Jan. 26, 2022. The anemometer is a weather instrument used to read both wind speed and direction. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kayla LaMar)

METOC: Marines behind Quantico’s weather forecasts

“When I tell people that I’m a meteorologist or that I’m a weatherman, I get asked immediately, ‘Are you on the news?’ Then I tell them that I actually work for the Marine Corps... I work behind the scenes,” said Sgt. Nathanial Cunningham, meteorology and oceanography analyst forecaster, Marine Corps Air Facility, Quantico...

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U.S. Marine Corps officers assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a wargaming scenario aboard Amphibious Assault Ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), Oct. 22, 2021. The wargame was an exercise used by the Marine officers to increase proficiency in real-time decision making during PHIBRON-MEU Integrated Training (PMINT). PMINT is the first at-sea period in the MEU’s Pre-deployment Training Program; it aims to increase interoperability and build relationships between Marines and Sailors. - U.S. Marine Corps officers assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a wargaming scenario aboard Amphibious Assault Ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), Oct. 22, 2021. The wargame was an exercise used by the Marine officers to increase proficiency in real-time decision making during PHIBRON-MEU Integrated Training (PMINT). PMINT is the first at-sea period in the MEU’s Pre-deployment Training Program; it aims to increase interoperability and build relationships between Marines and Sailors.

Developing Better Decision Makers through Wargaming

In the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Planning Guidance, the Commandant writes, “wargaming needs to be used more broadly to fill what is arguably our greatest deficiency in the training and education of leaders: practice in decision making against a thinking enemy.” Recently, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit attempted to do just this by incorporating history based wargaming into the unit’s already existing reading and PME program...

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