Fmf Section 103: Marine Corps Mission And Organization Fundamentals

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What are the 7 elements of the Marine Corps Mission?

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Provide Fleet Marine Forces with combined arms and supporting air components for service with the US Fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the execution of a naval campaign.

Provide dets and organizations for service on armed vessels of the Navy and security dets for the protection of naval property at naval stations and bases.

Develop, in coordination with the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the doctorine, tactics, techniques, and equipment employed by landing forces in amphibious operations.

Provide Marine forces for airborne operations, in coordination with the Army, Navy, and Air Force, according to the doctorine established by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Develop in coordination with the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the doctorine, procedures, and equipment for airborne operations.

Expand peacetime components to meet wartime needs according to the joint mobilization plans.

Perform such other duties as the President may direct.

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How many types of chains of commands are there, what are they and who is in each of them?

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Two parallel chains of command.
-Service chain - President, SecDef, SecNav, Commandant
- Operational chain - President, SecDef, commanders of combatant commands

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What are the three Marine Corps operating forces?

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Marine Corps Forces (MARFOR)
Marine Corps Security Forces (MCSF)
Marine Security Guard (MSG)

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Marine Corps Forces (MARFOR)

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- Organized as MAGTF's
- Two locations - MARFORCOM located in virginia and MARFORPAC located in Hawaii.
- they serve as Marine Corps component commanders to their respective combatant commanders and may also serve as the commanding generals of Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, Pacific, and Europe.
- As commanding generals, with the status of a naval type commander, they provide forces for service with Commander, US Atlantic Fleet; Commander, US Pacific Fleet; and Commander, US Naval Forces Europe.

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Marine Corps Security Forces (MCSF)

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Approximently 3400 Marines who protect key naval installations and facilities worldwide.

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Marine Security Guard (MSG)

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Dets at embassies and consulates around the globe are provided by the Marine security guard battalion to the Dept of State for the embassy security.
- they are assigned to 121 diplomatic posts in 115 countries throughout the world.

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What is the purpose of Headquarters Marine Corps?

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Headquarters, US Marine Corps - Commandant of the Marine Corps and those staff agencies that advise and assist the Commandant in discharging those responsibilities prescribed by law and higher authority.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps - directly responsiblie to the SecNav for admin, discipline, internal organtization, training, reqirements, efficiency, and readiness of the Marine Corps.
*** Total performance of the Marine Corps.

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What is a MAGTF?

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Marine Air-Ground Task Force

Principle organization for the conduct of all missions across the range of military operations.
- they have organic ground, aviation and sustainment elements.
-they are task-organized forces that can respond rapidly to a contingency anywhere in the world and are able to conduct a variety of missions.

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How many parts are there in a MEF and what are they?

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4
MEF headquarters group (MHG)
Marine Aircraft Wing, Air Combat Element (ACE)
Marine Division, Ground Combat Element ((GCE)
Marine Logistic Group (MLG), Logistic Combat element (LCE)

*** Each MEF consists of a permanent Combat Element, a MARDIV, a MAW and a MLG.

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What does the MHG do?

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Provides command and support functions for the MEF.
Provides admininistrative and logistical support functions.
- Main units are normally - ANGLICO, Communications Battalion, Intelligence Battalion, Radio Battalion, and MP support Company.

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What does the ACE do?

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Task-organized to support the MAGTF mission by performing some or all of the 6 functions of Marine Corps aviation.
ACE can operate eccectively from ships, expeditionary airfields, or austere forward operating sites and can readily and routinely transition between sea bases and expeditionary airfields without loss of capability.
Can vary in size and composition from a det with specific capabilities to one or more MAW's.

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What does the GCE do?

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Task organized to conduct ground operations in support of the MAGTF mission.
Normally formed around an infanty organization reinforced with requisite artillery, recon, armor, and engineer forces and can vary in size and composition from rifle platoon to one or more MARDIV's.

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What does the LCE do?

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Task organized to provide full range of Combat Service Support (CSS) functions and capabilities needed to support the continued readiness and sustainability of the MAGTF as a whole.
- formed around a CSS HQ and may vary in size between a composition from a support det to one or more MLG's.

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Where are the locations of the three standing MEF's?

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I MEF - California and Arizona
II MEF - North and South carolina
III MEF - Japan and Hawaii

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What is a MEB?

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Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
- built around a reinforced infantry regiment, an aircraft group, and a logistics combat element.
- Brigadier general usually commands them.
-capable of rapid deployments via amphibious shipping, strategic airlift, marrying with Maritime prepositioned Force assests or any combination thereof.

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What are the parts of a MEB?

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Command element - command and control
Air Combat Element - MAG
Ground Combat Element - RCT
Logistic Combat Element - CLR

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What is the mission of a MEU(SOC)?

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standard forward-deployed Marine expeditionary organization.

Provide a forward-deployed, sea based, rapid crisis response capability to execute a full range of military operations.
- organizedm trained, and equipped as a self-sustaining, general-purpose expeditionary MAGTF that possesses the capability to conduct operations across the spectrum of conflict, from military operations other than wat to amphibious and other conventional operations in support of various contingency reqs, including selected maritime special operations.

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What are the four elements of a MEU(SOC)?

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Command Element (CE)- command and control - consists of a Command deck, HQ Commandant, Public Affairs, the Chaplain, Medical, and S-1, S-2, S-3, S-4 and S-6

Air Combat Element (ACE) - reinforced helicopter squadron

Ground Combat Element (GCE) - Battalion Landing Team (BLT)

Logistics Combat Element (LCE) - Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB)

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What are the 7 standing MEUs?

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I MEF - 11th, 13, and 15th MEUs
II MEF - 22d, 24th, and 26th MEUs
III MEF - 31st MEU

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What is the mission of a SPMAGTF?

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Used for a specific mission - disaster relief, humanitarrean assistance, noncombatant evacuation operation, or security operations.

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What are the elements of a SPMAGTF?

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CE - command and control
ACE - det of aircraft
GCE - at least a platoon sized infantry element
LCE - task organized to meet specific services