Navy, Marines Step Up Training to Prepare for High-End Fight
By: Megan Eckstein
February 20, 2018 6:22 PM • Updated: February 21, 2018 7:42 AM
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Navy type commanders have boosted the quality of their training events to prepare for battle against a peer or near-peer competitor and continue to look for ways to make their training more complex and operationally relevant.
1st Marine Division Commanding General Maj. Gen. Eric Smith said earlier this month at the WEST 2018 conference that all his training is now based on actual operational plans – a departure from previous training against notional adversaries that starts on the lower end of the warfare scale and works up the range of military operations.
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