Marine Corps Pilot Program Expands Infantry Skills
8/23/2021
By Scott R. Gourley
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps is conducting a series of pilot training programs designed to enhance the capabilities of infantry elements.
The new course reflects Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s planning guidance contained in recent publications, including “Force Design 2030,” in which he concurred with findings that “current entry level and advanced infantry training programs and policies will not meet future demands of our infantry elements.”
The first of the new pilot programs concluded in late April at the School of Infantry-West, at Camp Pendleton, California.
“The impetus behind the Infantry Marine Course came from guidance from … Gen. Berger looking at systemic changes within the Marine Corps based on future age operating concepts, and looking at both the future threat forces we face and the environments in which we are going to face them,” Col. Coby Moran, commanding officer, School of Infantry-West, told National Defense during one of the final days of the training.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/8/23/marine-corps-pilot-program-expands-infantry-skills
