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The final day of Modern Day Marine 2022 provided insight into the path forward for human performance and talent management initiatives in the Marine Corps. Participants listened to two important panel discussions and heard the latest updates on Talent Management 2030 and Training and Education 2030.

These presentations were closely related to the topics discussed during the first two days of Modern Day Marine: Force Design 2030, and the concept of Stand-In Forces support. The Marine Corps needs smart, mature Marines in order to close the kill chains faster than the nation’s adversaries. That’s why General Berger made his second and third priorities Talent Management 2030 – to recruit and retain smart, mature Marines – and Training and Education Command 2030 – to keep those Marines smart and mature.

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. David Ottignon, Deputy Commander Manpower and Reserve Affairs, led the day’s first set of panels on Talent Management 2030. Ottignon reported update on the status of Marine Corps personnel management functions and highlighted how creating a sustainable talent management system will enhance the Corps’ ability to retain the most qualified and talented Marines . Among the innovations being considered is a talent management marketplace where Marines could more easily see available tickets and seize specific opportunities.

“I want transparency for you, the Marine, the monitor, the mentor, the command – a meeting place in a marketplace that allows an individual to see opportunities, to measure themselves against those opportunities, to see if they has the skills we want for continued service.” Lieutenant General David Ottignon, Deputy Commander Manpower and Reserve Affairs

The Marine Corps has been and always will be a people-centered organization. While the Corps continues to make significant investments in modernizing equipment, structure, and designs, it is the training and development of individual Marines that makes the organization successful.

“It’s not the weapon the Marine carries, the plane the Marines fly, it’s not equipment. The very essence of what makes the Marine Corps is the success of the individual Marine who, as part of a team, has been invested with the skills, education, training, retraining, re-education.It makes the Marine Corps so effective on the battlefield. sergeant. Maj. Troy E. Black, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

Leaders from Marine Corps Training and Education Command take center stage in the Main Briefing Room to discuss the next version of Training and Education 2030. Moderated by Anthony J. Greco, Director Deputy Training and Education Command, the audience heard first-hand about the upcoming modernization of the Corps’ training and education enterprise.

“We just have to constantly rethink how our training pipeline works and how we need to refine it to get the right balance between the art and science of what to think, versus developing critical thinking skills that will serve these Marines better in the fleet, and possibly in a combat situation.” Collar. Eric R. Quehl, Director, Policy and Standards Division, Training and Education Command

Regarding the modernization and continuous improvement of Marine Corps recruit training, Col. Joseph W. Jones, commanding officer of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Recruit Training Regiment, offered words on the importance of the human element of pipeline formation.

“That human interaction is essential, I think, to the success of not only what we do in Making Marines, but also the success of our Corps,” Jones said.

In the Marine area of ​​the exhibit, Eric Schaner, senior information strategy and policy analyst with Deputy Commandant Information, presented a brief overview of Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 8: Information. The document, which is expected to be released in the coming weeks, outlines the Marine Corps philosophy for leveraging information as a combat function.

“Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 8, Information is our key service doctrine that describes the purpose and mechanism of the information warfare function. Information is central to how our rivals compete and fight today , in the information age. Therefore, information must be fundamental to how we execute combined arms and maneuvers in the 21st century,” Schaner said.

The focus on human performance and the individual Navy was heard throughout the panels on the third and final day of the Modern Day Marine 2022 Expo. The 42nd annual Expo was held in Washington, D.C. and featured more than 350 exhibits from Marine Corps and defense industry organizations. More than 10,000 attendees came to see how the Marine Corps is innovating today to win the battles of tomorrow.

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For more information on Force Design 2030 and associated modernization efforts, visit: www.marines.mil/Force-Design-2030