FISCAL YEAR 2025 MARINE CORPS LESSONS LEARNED COLLECTION CAMPAIGN PLAN AND COLLECTION PRIORITIES

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MARADMIN 424/24
MSGID/GENADMIN/CG TECOM QUANTICO VA//
SUBJ/FISCAL YEAR 2025 MARINE CORPS LESSONS LEARNED COLLECTION
CAMPAIGN PLAN AND COLLECTION PRIORITIES//
REF/A/MCO 3504.1/DC CDI/31 JUL 2006//
REF/B/TECOMO 3503.1B/CG TECOM/07 MAR 2023//
NARR/REF A IS MARINE CORPS ORDER 3504.1 THE MARINE CORPS LESSONS
LEARNED PROGRAM (MCLLP) AND THE MARINE CORPS CENTER FOR LESSONS
LEARNED (MCCLL). REF B IS THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION COMMAND (TECOM)
ORDER 3503.1B, TECOM TREND REVERSAL AND REINFORCEMENT PROCESS//
POC/MARK SILVIA/CIV/UNIT: MCCLL/ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENTS BRANCH/
POLICY AND STANDARDS DIVISION/TECOM/TEL: (703) 432-1950/DSN:
(312) 378-1950/EMAIL:[email protected];
[email protected]//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. Purpose. This MARADMIN announces the Fiscal
Year (FY) 2025 Marine Corps Lessons Learned Collection Campaign
Plan (CCP) as well as identifies other collection priorities for
Analysis and Assessments Branch, Policy and Standards Division,
Training and Education Command (TECOM).
2. Background. The CCP was developed in conjunction with Marine
Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL) Program Analysts embedded
in the Fleet Marine Force (FMF), Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC),
and Marine Corps component commands, following the completion of a
Marine Corps wide data call for lessons learned collection topics
per reference (a). The topics nominated and selected are considered
to have significant value to both the FMF
and Supporting Establishment and will provide actionable information
and, as applicable, influence change in operational tactics,
techniques, and procedures, and / or be informative to HQMC and
Deputy Commandants, TECOM Headquarters (HQ), as well as doctrine,
organization, training, materiel, leadership and education,
personnel, facilities, policy and warfighting function stakeholders
for resource application deliberations and decisions. Selection
criteria used to evaluate all topics included linkages to the 39th
Commandant of the Marine Corps White Letter 1-23 and Fragmentary
Order 01-2024, Commanding General TECOM Training and Education 2030,
and Force Design 2030, as well as commander identified priorities.
Topic selection criteria also included ties to naval integration and
Marine Corps operating concepts (e.g., Expeditionary Advanced Base
Operations, Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment,
Distributed Maritime Operations).
3. This CCP provides a baseline for MCCLL FY25 collection execution
and will be modified as required based on emerging events and issues
(e.g., disaster relief operations) and input from HQMC, the FMF,
Marine Corps component commands, and the supporting establishment.
For each collection effort, MCCLL will coordinate a feasibility of
support request with those commands that are directly impacted.
Each collection will result in a MCCLL final report.
4. MCCLL formal FY25 collections include (primary Marine Corps
commands impacted and scheduling in parenthesis):
4.a. I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) MEF Exercise (MEFEX) /
Exercise Steel Knight 2024 (I Marine Expeditionary Force [MEF] and
Major Subordinate Commands [MSCs]: Quarter [Q] 1).
4.b. Russo-Ukrainian War: Themes from Reporting (update report)
(HQMC, Marine Forces Europe/Africa [MARFOREUR/AF]: Q2)
4.c. Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) (TECOM, HQMC Combat
Development and Integration [CD&I], MEFs and their MSCs: Q2)
4.d. Joint Task Force (JTF) Exercise (JTFX) 2025 (II MEF and MSCs:
Q2)
4.e. Exercise Pacific Sentry 2025 (Marine Forces Pacific
[MARFORPAC], I MEF, III MEF and MSCs, Marine Corps Installations
Pacific [MCIPAC]: Q3).
4.f. Exercise Balikatan 2025 (I MEF and MSCs: Q3).
4.g. Exercise Formidable Shield 2025 (MARFOREUR/AF, Combined Task
Force [CTF] 61/2, 2nd Marine Division [MARDIV], 2nd Marine Air Wing
[MAW]: Q3)
4.h. III MEF Transformation to Force Design (MARFORPAC, III MEF
and MSCs, MCIPAC: Q4)
4.i. Service Level Training Exercise (SLTE) 4-25 (Marine Air
Ground Task Force Training Command [MAGTFTC], 1st MARDIV, 2nd
MARDIV, 1st Marine Logistics Group [MLG], 2nd MLG, 2nd MAW, 3rd
MAW: Q4)
4.j. 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines (2/23) Unit Deployment Program
(UDP) 25.1 (Marine Forces Reserve [MARFORRES], I MEF, II MEF, 1st
MARDIV, 3rd MARDIV, 4th MARDIV, 2/23: Q4)
4.k. Establishment of Littoral Craft Companies (TECOM, HQMC CD&I,
MARFORRES, MEFs, 4th MARDIV, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion: Q4)
5. Other collection priorities for FY25 include:
5.a. In addition to the collection events listed above, the CCP
schedule includes the publishing of lessons learned trend reports at
six-month intervals. These trend reports will provide issues and
best practices from the synthesis of information collected and
archived by Analysis and Assessments Branch (A&AB), TECOM. The
source information is drawn primarily from unit submitted After
Action Reports (AAR), though will include other lesson learned
related products. A primary purpose of the trend report is to
serve as input to issue resolution processes, as well as to inform
operational planning and leader decisions.
5.b. Unit AARs from operations, service-level training, Marine
Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation, and home station training
events are an important and essential foundation of the MCLLP and
provide a first step in providing a threat-based understanding of
how we fight. These detailed AARs and lessons learned reports will
continue to inform and adapt our warfighting functions, operating
concepts, and force design. Consequently, timely submission of
AARs to MCCLL for them to be meta-tagged, stored, and made
available across the Marine Corps electronically is essential.
Using the AAR template provided on the homepage of the MCCLL
unclassified and classified SharePoint sites improves the results
of the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities
being employed.
5.c. Reference (b) defines the process that provides TECOM with
the means to identify service-level training trends for action
in order to reverse negative training trends and reinforce
positive trends. It also supports closing the lessons learned
loop in order to improve awareness throughout the FMF, enhance
the force generation process, and support FMF unit readiness.
Per the TECOM Order requirements, receiving trend reports or AARs
from TECOM MSCs on trends from administration and assessment of
service level training events and other training and education
activities so that this information can be consolidated, archived,
and analyzed, is a collection priority. Results from these
collections will be submitted as appropriate to the TECOM HQ Trend
Reversal and Reinforcement Process (TRRP), and briefed to the
Assessments Working Group (AWG), to develop actions that will enable
addressing the negative training trends and the reinforcement of
positive trends. TECOM MSC reports can be emailed to the group
mailbox [email protected] or the message point of contact can be
contacted for coordination.
6. Units are encouraged to leverage the assistance provided by
MCCLL analysts embedded with the FMF and supporting establishment.
Embedded analysts have the task to collect and facilitate AAR
submissions from their supported commands, as well as to collect
other valuable information such as exercise hotwash briefs and unit
standard operational procedure documents. The point of contact
information for embedded analysts can be accessed on the MCCLL
SharePoint homepage. Any command that is not directly supported by
a MCCLL analyst can contact the message point of contact, or send
an email to the group mailbox [email protected].
7. The Marine Corps FY25 Lessons Learned CCP with amplifying
information on each collection is found on the MCCLL NIPR website
homepage, at https(slash)usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/sites/tecom_mccll.
The classified SIPR website can be accessed at
https:(slash)www.eis-op.usmc.smil.mil/sites/MCCLL. These websites
contain a vast amount of Marine Corps lessons learned information.
Along with a robust archive search function, the sites contain
topical pages of items consolidated on various subjects, as well as
libraries of MCCLL reports and unit AARs.
8. Release authorized by Lieutenant General Benjamin T. Watson,
Commanding General, Training and Education Command.//