![]() ![]() IMC is a 14-week pilot course designed to create better trained and more lethal entry-level infantry Marines prepared for near-peer conflicts. Marine combat instructors with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, fire an FGM-148 Javelin weapon system at targets during a javelin qualification course as part of the eighth week of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Mar. “If we, in the future, get into a fight tonight scenario where we do need to rapidly train and deploy Marines, our IMC graduates should be able to fight, win, survive on a future battlefield at a much greater level without that long predeployment training timeline,” he added. ![]() Coby Moran, the commander of School of Infantry-West said. “We would expect our graduates to be able to join their units in the fleet today … and be able to directly contribute to a successful infantry unit at a team level, a squad level, a platoon level,” Col. The 138 Marines who graduated are more competent on more weapons, know more secondary infantry skills ― from land navigation to communication ― than Marines who previously have graduated from the School of Infantry, according to the Marines who created and led the course. There were no discipline issues, no refusal to train and no liberty incidents, Pasciuti told reporters who had traveled to Camp Pendleton, California, to watch as the Marines kicked off the event. Of the 140 Marines who started the 14-week course only two were dropped, a higher success rate than the standard SOI class. In the future, range data along with other potential metrics may be posted publicly for the students to help create a greater sense of competition within the course. The Corps is still analyzing that data as it prepares for the next three experimental iterations. The data is linked to a tablet used by the instructor to measure the accuracy of each shot, enabling the school to track exactly how well the Marines have done throughout the course, how much they improved, and how they compare to their peers. ![]() “There’s a watch that they’re wearing that tracks every shot that they take and exactly when they took it in relation to the start,” Joe Hamilton, one of the researchers, told Marine Corps Times. Researchers with the Office of Naval Research digitally tracked the accuracy and speed of nearly every round Marines fired from their M-27s. The program of instruction for IMC has been in development for a year and follows guidance from the 2019 Commandant's Planning Guidance and Force Design 2030. The course uses a redesigned learning model for students intended to develop their capabilities for independent and adaptive thought and action. Marine with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, programs an AN/PRC-117 multiband manpack radio as part of the capstone exercise for the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 28, 2021. ![]()
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