R 181345Z OCT 22
MARADMIN 544/22
MSGID/GENADMIN/CG TECOM QUANTICO VA//
SUBJ/FISCAL YEAR 2023 MARINE CORPS LESSONS LEARNED COLLECTION CAMPAIGN PLAN AND COLLECTION PRIORITIES//
REF/A/MCO 3504.1/DC CDI/31 JUL 2006//
REF/B/TECOMO 3503.1A CH 1/CG TECOM/02 JUN 2020//
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 3503.1A WITH CHANGE 1, 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: MARK.A.SILVIA@USMC.MIL; MARK.SILVIA@USMC.SMIL.MIL//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1.  Purpose.  This MARADMIN announces the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Marine Corps Lessons Learned Collection Campaign Plan (CCP) as well as identifies other collection priorities for Analysis and Assessments Branch, Policy and Standards Division, TECOM.
2.  Background.  The CCP was developed in conjunction with 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.  The topics nominated and selected are considered to have significant value to provide actionable information and, as applicable, to influence change in operational tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), and / or be informative to HQMC and Deputy Commandants, TECOM HQ, as well as doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities, policy and warfighting function stakeholders for resource application deliberations and decisions.  Selection criteria used to evaluate all topics included linkages to the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Planning Guidance, the Commanding General TECOM Campaign Plan FY2020-2025, and Force Design 2030.  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 FY23 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 FY23 collections include (primary Marine Corps commands impacted and scheduling in parenthesis):
4.a.  Naval Large Scale Exercise 23 (II MEF and major subordinate commands (MSC)): Quarter (Q)4).
4.b.  Naval Integration-CTF 61/2 and RXR (MARFOREURAF; II MEF; 2nd MARDIV; 2nd MEB; 24th MEU; II MIG: Q1).
4.c.  Exercise Pacific Sentry 23 (I MEF; III MEF: Q4).
4.d.  Force Design 2030 IOC Capstone Event (MARFORPAC; I MEF; III MEF: Q4).
4.e.  13th MEU WESTPAC 23.1 (I MEF; 13th MEU: Q3).
4.f.  Marine Rotational Force Darwin (I MEF; 1st MARDIV; 5th MAR; 3/7; VMM-363: Q2).
4.g.  Exercise Talisman Sabre 23 (I MEF; 1st MARDIV; 1st MAR; 1/7; III MEF; 31st MEU: Q4).
4.h.  Service Implications from the Russia-Ukraine War (MARFOREURAF; II MEF; CTF-61/2; HQMC (PP&O, CD&I); TECOM: Q1).
4.i.  Exercise Keen Sword 23 (III MEF and MSCs: Q1).
4.j.  UNITAS-23 (MARFORSOUTHCOM; MARFORRES and MSCs: Q4).
4.k.  TECOM Home Station Training Support (TECOM; MAGTFTC and MSEs; TRNGCMD; SLTE (MWX 2-23) units: Q3).
4.l.  Exercise Summer Fury 23 (3rd MAW: Q4)
4.m.  Title 22 Interagency Coordination - Training Impacts (TECOM; 13th MEU; 22nd MEU; 31st MEU: Q1, Q3).
5.  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, TECOM.  The source information is drawn primarily from unit submitted after action reports (AAR), though will include other lesson learned related products.  A trend report’s primary purpose is to serve as inputs to issue resolution processes, as well as to inform operational planning and leader decisions.
6.  Other collection priorities for FY23 include:
6.a.  Unit AARs from operations, Service-level training, Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE), 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 in how we fight.  These 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.  An AAR template is provided on the homepage of MCCLL’s unclassified and classified SharePoint sites.
6.b.  The Trend Reinforcement and Reversal Process (TRRP) (Ref. 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 TECOMO requirements, receiving trend reports or AARs from TECOM MSCs on trends from administration and assessment of service level training events (SLTE) 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 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 MCCLL_Ops@usmc.mil or the message point of contact can be contacted for coordination.
7.  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 MCCLL_Ops@usmc.mil.
8.  The Marine Corps FY23 Lessons Learned CCP with amplifying information on each collection is found on the MCCLL NIPR website homepage, at https:(slash)(slash)usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/sites/tecom_mccll.  The classified SIPR website can be accessed at https:(slash)(slash)www.eis.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.
9.  Release authorized by Lieutenant General Kevin M. Iiams, Commanding General, Training and Education Command.//