Training Regulations

Training Pipeline Overview:

Recruit Training

School of Infantry

Unit Level Training

Division Level Training

Key Goal:

Create Marines who thrive in chaos, lead under fire, and don't freeze up when bullets are flying.

Recruit Training:

Recruit Training is the initial process required for entry into the group. Upon successful completion of your Recruit Training, you may be eligible to join the 1st Marine Division. Ultimately, it is here that you will learn the basics of being a Marine, it is not until you enter your School of Infantry that you learn the basics of being a Marine Rifleman.

School of Infantry:

School of Infantry is broken down into two curriculums;

Infantry Training Battalion

Marine Combat Training

The Infantry Training Battalion's mission is to train and qualify Marines in entry level infantry military occupational specialties to provide the Operating Forces with Marines capable of conducting expeditionary combat operations. 

Marine Combat Training is the process in which new Marines not holding an Infantry billet will learn the skills and processes required for their jobs, regardless of whether that job is Admin, Medical, Communications, or Operations.

Infantry Training Battalion

During your ITB, you will focus on Individual Training as well as Team Training. The current training curriculum outlines the following as required courses;

Marksmanship (Rifle, Pistol, and Machine Gun Platforms)

Use of Grenades and Explosives (Grenades and Rocket Platforms)

Small Unit Tactics (Fire Team and Squad Maneuvers)

Close-Quarters Battle (CQB)

Basic Field Survival Training

Land Navigation

Movement to Contact

Breaching Operations

Urban Warfare Training

Convoy Operations

The next phase of ITB is broke down into based on billet within the Division. Those taking an Assaultman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, or leadership billets will be required to take individualized training in that billet. 

Those taking leadership billets will be required to take the following;

Infantry Squad Leaders Course

Infantry Mortars Leaders Course

Infantry Machinegun Leaders Course

Infantry Assaultman Leaders Course

Marine Combat Training

During your MCT, you will focus on Individual Skills Training, it is here that you will learn the in and outs of your billet. Non-Infantry Marines will be taught the common skills needed in combat. Marines undergoing MCT will go through the following required courses;

Basic Marksmanship

Convoy Operations

Combat Formations

Fireteam Assaults

Urban Warfare Training

Communications Training

Use of Explosives

Field Medical Training

Those graduating the first phase of MCT will go through Advanced Training Battalion or ATB. Marines going through ATB will be taught advanced courses pertaining to the billet they are to hold, these courses are as such;

Marine Combat Instructors School (MCIS)

Marine Field Medicine Instructors School (FMIS)

Unit Level Training:

Unit Level Training is the split-process of individual training as well as Small Unit Operations. The first part of Unit Level is individual training which consists of the following depending on rank;

Corporals Leadership Course

Basic Leadership Course

Senior Leadership Course

The second part of Unit Level is the Small Unit Operations. Marines here will take part in operations of Squad, Platoon, and Company operations. Training and Courses in this are considered as such;

Team/Platoon movement to contact

Team/Platoon ambushes and counter-ambush

Team/Platoon Urban Warfare and Breaching

Live-Fire Exercises

Fire Support Coordination Exercises

Force-on-Force

Division Level Training:

Division Level Training is done in large scale exercises and utilize the full strength of a deployed division. These include Division-level War Games, Integrated Field Exercises, and Amphibious Training Exercises