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USNI News Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific May 6, 2021 2:51 PM U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, take simulated artillery fire during the last event of a five-day capstone exercise for the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on April 30, 2021. US Marine Corps CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF. — After 20 years of counterinsurgency and low-end conflict in the Middle East, the Marines are rapidly retooling for a different kind of fight. As the service has shed legacy equipment like t...

At the conclusion of the 14-week course, 90% of the newly minted grunts had the skills needed to survive in deep water.

A new clime and place: Future battlefield at the forefront of new Marine School of Infantry pilot program March 8 In addition to extending the standard SOI course and adding new skills to the curriculum, the course will start training Marines for the new geographic focus and strategy. (Sgt. Tyler L. Main/Marine Corps) After nearly two decades of fighting wars all over the Middle East, the Corps is looking to fight in a new clime and place, using new tactics to take on near-peer enemies. The Corps’ shift to the Pacific and emphasis on expeditionary advanced base operations comes with a...

By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 22, 2021 The Marine Corps is ditching some of its formation marches and adding board games to a new, longer entry-level infantry training course aimed at creating Marines who can better think and act for themselves. The Infantry Marine Course pilot program launched last month at the service’s School of Infantry-West on Camp Pendleton, Calif., where instructors were pictured instructing new Marines on how chess relates to battlefield tactics. The course focuses less on micromanagement and more on individual responsibility, the service...

Chess during downtime: How the Corps wants to increase ‘thinking’ in Marine infantry January 25 Marines show Japan Ground Self-Defense Force service members room-clearing techniques during Exercise Forest Light Western Army at Kirishima Maneuver Field, Kumamoto, Japan, Jan. 27, 2020. (Sgt. Audrey M. C. Rampton/Marine Corps) Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has a vision for the Corps’ future fights that sees Marines fighting a near-peer enemy in small dispersed units, raiding islands, sinking ships and attacking the enemy’s cyber capabilities. The plan ultimately will pu...