Transcript DAY 4 Marine Corps - Kessler

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Brigadier General Jim Kessler
Director, Manpower Management Division, M&RA
The Corps Today
TOTAL ACTIVE DUTY – 196,853
OIF
OEF
15
MEU
26
31
MEU
MEU
24
MEU
HOA
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Just of Few Numbers
 Marines under the age of 20 – 19.6%
 Marines under the age of 25 – 66.7%
 Number of Colonels – Active 607
Reserves 657 (173 are mobilized)
 Number of General Officers – Active 80
Reserve 10 (2 are mobilized)
2 are Reserve Retire Recalls
 Number of SES – 28
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The Marine Air Ground Task Force
MAGTF
Command Element
Ground Combat
Element
(GCE)
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Aviation Combat
Element
(ACE)
Logistics Combat
Element
(LCE)
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
 Successes In Al Anbar
 Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF)
 Interaction with Local Iraqi Leadership
 Transition and Provisional Iraqi Control
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CMC’s Priorities
 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)
Vehicles
 Grow the Force (202K)
 Modernizing the Force
 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV)
 Taking Care of Marines and Their Families
 Wounded Warrior Regiment
 Mental Health Care
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Marine Corps Leadership
 Responsibility and Accountability
 Taking Care of the Troops
 Setting the Example
 Ethical Standards
 Continuing Education
 Know Your People
 Fitness Reports and NSPS
 GO/SES Rules of Thumb
 Never Put Anything In Writing That You Don’t Want To Read
In The Washington Post
 Never Say Anything Bad About Another SES/GO in Public
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Questions
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