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The Corps is evaluating the "quality spread" policy for new officer job field assignments.

U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Eric M. Smith has signed the U.S. Marine Corps Training and Education Annual Report (TEAR), June, 12, 2024. Published and distributed by Commanding General U.S. Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM),

The center is the largest of its kind in the Washington, D.C., area.

The center is the largest of its kind in the Washington, D.C., area.

Sen. Roger Wicker said the plan would "enable the United States to fix our failing defense infrastructure, field a new generation of equipment, and maintain American technological leadership."

If it had been allowed to evolve, OMFTs (Operational Maneuver from the Sea) would have been the perfect tool to suppress threats such as the Houthis at the source. A group of retired general officers calling themselves Chowder II have put together an alternate approach to Force Design for the Corps that they call Vision 2035; much of it is based on work done before 2001.

Pieces of the changes already in the operating force are proving their combat-worthiness, two senior generals said.

Military veterans David Berger and Charles Richard were named senior fellows at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The DoD has awarded a contract for the low rate initial production of the USMC's Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS).

"But now the tide has to turn, and we have to get back to quality of life," Gen. Eric Smith said.