WEBVTT 00:01.210 --> 00:03.266 Welcome to Marine Corps University , 00:03.266 --> 00:05.488 otherwise known as MCU . We are located 00:05.488 --> 00:07.543 here at Marine Corps Base Quantico , 00:07.543 --> 00:09.654 Virginia on the shores of the Potomac 00:09.654 --> 00:11.766 River . MCU was founded on August 1 , 00:11.930 --> 00:14.649 1989 by order of the Commonant of the 00:14.649 --> 00:16.927 Marine Corps , General Alfred M . Gray . 00:17.729 --> 00:19.951 Although the university is a relatively 00:19.951 --> 00:22.173 new organization , its conceptual roots 00:22.173 --> 00:24.173 trace back to World War One and the 00:24.173 --> 00:26.118 birth of the modern Marine Corps . 00:26.690 --> 00:28.746 General Gray's decision to establish 00:28.746 --> 00:31.209 MCU was a logical extension of the 00:31.209 --> 00:33.431 historical legacy of many famous marine 00:33.431 --> 00:35.610 leaders who valued the importance of 00:35.610 --> 00:37.700 education . Welcome to Breckenridge 00:37.700 --> 00:39.867 Hall , our university's headquarters . 00:40.369 --> 00:42.702 We're in the lobby of Breckenridge Hall , 00:42.702 --> 00:44.758 named after Lieutenant General James 00:44.758 --> 00:46.980 Breckenridge . The moment you step foot 00:46.980 --> 00:49.036 in here and anywhere on campus , our 00:49.036 --> 00:51.313 mission , values , and vision are felt . 00:51.313 --> 00:53.202 No other university has a mission 00:53.202 --> 00:55.091 statement like ours , which is to 00:55.091 --> 00:57.258 educate Marines to prevail in combat . 00:57.258 --> 00:59.480 We are the premier academic institution 00:59.480 --> 01:01.425 where war fighters come to learn , 01:01.425 --> 01:03.591 collaborate , and lead . We have three 01:03.591 --> 01:05.620 fundamental values heritage , 01:05.690 --> 01:08.550 innovation , and decisiveness . We have 01:08.550 --> 01:11.150 been proudly accredited by SACS COC 01:11.150 --> 01:15.050 since 1999 . Located immediately 01:15.050 --> 01:17.050 adjacent to our command deck and in 01:17.050 --> 01:19.272 close proximity to our resident schools 01:19.272 --> 01:21.328 is the College of Distance Education 01:21.328 --> 01:23.494 and Training . The College of Distance 01:23.494 --> 01:25.439 Education and Training , otherwise 01:25.439 --> 01:27.383 known as CEDET , Its mission is to 01:27.383 --> 01:30.209 design , develop , deliver , evaluate , 01:30.500 --> 01:33.220 manage , and resource distance learning 01:33.220 --> 01:35.442 products and programs across the Marine 01:35.442 --> 01:37.609 Corps training and education continuum 01:37.609 --> 01:39.442 in order to increase operational 01:39.442 --> 01:41.379 readiness . CEDA is a total force 01:41.379 --> 01:44.300 educational institution . It serves all 01:44.300 --> 01:46.389 United States military forces . And 01:46.389 --> 01:48.333 Department of Defense , government 01:48.333 --> 01:50.333 agencies , as well as international 01:50.333 --> 01:52.500 military forces throughout the globe . 01:52.809 --> 01:54.865 This team supports both our enlisted 01:54.865 --> 01:57.279 and officer marines in both distance 01:57.279 --> 01:59.760 and blended methods . We average over 01:59.760 --> 02:02.690 60,000 students per year , and our 02:02.690 --> 02:04.809 faculty is comprised of about 70 02:04.809 --> 02:08.360 members . Connected to 02:08.360 --> 02:11.000 Breckenridge Hall is Dunlap Hall , home 02:11.000 --> 02:13.056 of the Marine Corps War College , or 02:13.056 --> 02:15.039 McWor . McCorre is a senior 02:15.039 --> 02:17.279 professional military education school 02:17.279 --> 02:19.440 within the Marine Corps . And educate 02:19.440 --> 02:21.309 selected military and civilian 02:21.309 --> 02:23.198 professionals to become strategic 02:23.198 --> 02:25.080 advisors , critical and creative 02:25.080 --> 02:27.880 thinkers , military strategists , and 02:27.880 --> 02:29.936 joint war fighters who will meet the 02:29.936 --> 02:31.936 challenges of a complex and dynamic 02:31.936 --> 02:34.240 security environment . McCorps proudly 02:34.240 --> 02:36.419 awards its graduates and master of 02:36.419 --> 02:38.240 strategic studies and Joint 02:38.240 --> 02:41.080 Professional Military Education Level 2 02:41.080 --> 02:42.039 certification . 02:46.869 --> 02:49.036 Across from Dunlap Hall , you will see 02:49.036 --> 02:51.091 Warner Hall and the Simmons Center . 02:51.091 --> 02:53.258 Warner Hall is home to the Command and 02:53.258 --> 02:55.036 Staff College and the School of 02:55.036 --> 02:57.202 Advanced Warfighting . It is comprised 02:57.202 --> 02:59.369 of numerous conference group rooms for 02:59.369 --> 03:01.258 seminars and lecture halls with a 03:01.258 --> 03:03.480 capacity of up to 800 students . Before 03:03.480 --> 03:05.647 we head there , we're going to stop in 03:05.647 --> 03:07.647 the Gray Research Center , commonly 03:07.647 --> 03:08.702 known as the GRC . 03:24.000 --> 03:26.419 The GRC is named after our Commonant 03:26.419 --> 03:28.860 General Alfred Gray , the founder of 03:28.860 --> 03:32.500 MCU . The GRC houses the Library of the 03:32.500 --> 03:34.556 Marine Corps , the Brut Crula Center 03:34.556 --> 03:36.778 for Innovation and Future Warfighting , 03:36.979 --> 03:39.201 and the Leadership Communication Skills 03:39.201 --> 03:41.368 Center , which is our writing center . 03:41.368 --> 03:43.479 The Library of the Marine Corps holds 03:43.479 --> 03:45.590 countless physical books , journals , 03:45.590 --> 03:47.812 articles , as well as online content to 03:47.812 --> 03:50.259 support our student research . Let's go 03:50.259 --> 03:51.981 ahead and take a peek inside . 04:15.449 --> 04:17.338 The Simmons Center is home to the 04:17.338 --> 04:19.449 Marine Corps University Press and the 04:19.449 --> 04:21.449 Marine Corps History Division . The 04:21.449 --> 04:23.338 Marine Corps University Press was 04:23.338 --> 04:25.505 established in 2008 and recognizes the 04:25.505 --> 04:27.671 importance of an open dialogue between 04:27.671 --> 04:30.279 scholars , policymakers , analysts , 04:30.399 --> 04:32.920 and military leaders and of crossing 04:32.920 --> 04:35.142 civilian military boundaries to advance 04:35.142 --> 04:37.480 knowledge and problem solve . The 04:37.480 --> 04:39.760 History division's primary task is to 04:39.760 --> 04:41.871 research and write the Marine Corps's 04:41.871 --> 04:44.038 official history , part of our efforts 04:44.038 --> 04:46.038 to preserve and present . The proud 04:46.038 --> 04:48.038 history of the United States Marine 04:48.038 --> 04:50.204 Corps . It also provides reference and 04:50.204 --> 04:51.982 research assistance , preserves 04:51.982 --> 04:54.093 personal experiences and observations 04:54.093 --> 04:56.093 through oral history interviews and 04:56.093 --> 04:58.609 deploys field historians to record 04:58.609 --> 04:59.942 history in the making . 05:08.429 --> 05:10.779 Across the way , you'll see Billup Hall , 05:10.820 --> 05:12.709 which is the headquarters for the 05:12.709 --> 05:14.987 College of Enlisted Military Education , 05:14.987 --> 05:17.209 otherwise known as SEMI . SEMI provides 05:17.209 --> 05:19.950 a continuum of education to nearly 6000 05:19.980 --> 05:22.299 enlisted Marines and has nearly 100 05:22.299 --> 05:24.450 faculty members . The College of 05:24.450 --> 05:26.617 Enlisted Military Education provides a 05:26.617 --> 05:28.769 continuum of education to improve 05:28.769 --> 05:31.040 leadership , sharpen critical and 05:31.040 --> 05:33.309 creative thinking skills , and deepen 05:33.309 --> 05:35.476 Marines' understanding of war fighting 05:35.476 --> 05:37.410 concepts in distributed and joint 05:37.410 --> 05:40.000 environments in order to foster ethical , 05:40.369 --> 05:42.369 professional leaders who make sound 05:42.369 --> 05:44.829 decisions in complex operational 05:44.829 --> 05:45.570 situations . 05:51.980 --> 05:53.813 We're now entering Warner Hall . 06:02.709 --> 06:04.931 We're going to go down this hallway and 06:04.931 --> 06:06.987 visit student services . Some of the 06:06.987 --> 06:08.931 key components of student services 06:08.931 --> 06:10.987 include our university registrar and 06:10.987 --> 06:12.931 our international military student 06:12.931 --> 06:15.153 office . Our foreign students come from 06:15.153 --> 06:17.320 all over the world , strengthening our 06:17.320 --> 06:19.376 global and regional partnerships and 06:19.376 --> 06:19.230 alliances . 06:32.839 --> 06:35.061 Now , let's head upstairs and visit our 06:35.061 --> 06:37.172 command and staff college , otherwise 06:37.172 --> 06:39.395 known as CSC , as well as our School of 06:39.395 --> 06:41.561 Advanced Warfighting , otherwise known 06:41.561 --> 06:40.600 as SOA . 07:18.470 --> 07:20.637 Welcome to Command and Staff College , 07:20.637 --> 07:23.470 or CSC , which originated as the field 07:23.470 --> 07:25.720 officers course in Quantico , Virginia 07:25.720 --> 07:28.989 in 1920 . The program has evolved and 07:28.989 --> 07:31.156 continues to evolve in accordance with 07:31.156 --> 07:33.670 the global security environment . CSC 07:33.670 --> 07:35.614 courses are taught by military and 07:35.614 --> 07:38.029 civilian faculty divided into four 07:38.029 --> 07:41.329 departments war fighting , leadership , 07:41.549 --> 07:44.059 war studies , and security studies . 07:44.549 --> 07:47.079 CSC proudly awards its graduates about 07:47.079 --> 07:49.339 200 a year . A master of military 07:49.339 --> 07:51.890 studies and joint professional military 07:51.890 --> 07:54.179 education level one certification . 07:59.290 --> 08:01.457 All right , let's go ahead and drop in 08:01.457 --> 08:03.123 and take a look at one of our 08:03.123 --> 08:05.730 conference group rooms . The vast 08:05.730 --> 08:07.897 majority of our education is delivered 08:07.897 --> 08:09.730 through the Socratic method . To 08:09.730 --> 08:11.897 accomplish this , students are divided 08:11.897 --> 08:13.563 into conference groups . Each 08:13.563 --> 08:15.674 conference group is allocated a space 08:15.674 --> 08:17.619 just like this one where they will 08:17.619 --> 08:19.841 spend the semester in dialogue and deep 08:19.841 --> 08:22.063 discussions on complex topics important 08:22.063 --> 08:24.174 to the United States Marine Corps and 08:24.174 --> 08:26.230 our national security . As mentioned 08:26.230 --> 08:28.508 earlier , we have roughly 200 students , 08:28.508 --> 08:30.508 mostly majors in the Marine Corps , 08:30.508 --> 08:32.619 along with other service members from 08:32.619 --> 08:34.786 our other branches , civilians , inter 08:34.786 --> 08:37.008 agencies , and international officers . 08:37.349 --> 08:39.229 Command and Staff College has 58 08:39.229 --> 08:41.669 faculty members this year . Now , let's 08:41.669 --> 08:43.613 go ahead and head over to S Soft . 09:04.340 --> 09:06.507 Saul , not to be confused with a light 09:06.507 --> 09:08.618 machine gun , is a school of advanced 09:08.618 --> 09:10.729 war fighting . Here students learn to 09:10.729 --> 09:12.896 be lead planners and future commanders 09:12.896 --> 09:14.896 with the foresight and intellect to 09:14.896 --> 09:17.062 design and execute joint campaigns and 09:17.062 --> 09:20.340 naval expeditionary operations . So is 09:20.340 --> 09:22.451 an extremely competitive program that 09:22.451 --> 09:24.618 selects approximately 30 students each 09:24.618 --> 09:27.369 year . Its graduates earn a master of 09:27.369 --> 09:30.390 operational studies . One of the 09:30.390 --> 09:32.557 schools we did not get the opportunity 09:32.557 --> 09:34.390 to show you is our expeditionary 09:34.390 --> 09:37.150 warfare school , known as EWS . This 09:37.150 --> 09:39.317 school educates and trains our company 09:39.317 --> 09:41.539 grade officers in order to prepare them 09:41.539 --> 09:43.761 mentally , morally , and physically for 09:43.761 --> 09:45.428 bills of increased leadership 09:45.428 --> 09:47.317 responsibility across the fleet , 09:47.317 --> 09:49.372 Marine Force , and the Joint Force . 09:49.372 --> 09:51.483 EWS , still in close proximity to the 09:51.483 --> 09:53.750 MCU campus , is located across Marine 09:53.750 --> 09:56.429 Corps Base Quantico at Geiger Hall . 09:57.109 --> 09:59.220 While not a degree awarding program , 09:59.220 --> 10:01.510 EWS is a 41 week resident school that 10:01.510 --> 10:03.454 provides career level professional 10:03.454 --> 10:05.590 military education and training to 10:05.590 --> 10:07.479 company grade marine officers and 10:07.479 --> 10:09.669 selected officers from other services 10:09.669 --> 10:12.710 in countries . This year we have 242 10:12.710 --> 10:16.500 students and 26 faculty members . We 10:16.500 --> 10:18.556 hope you enjoyed this tour of Marine 10:18.556 --> 10:20.778 Corps University and got a sense of how 10:20.778 --> 10:22.722 unique and special this place is . 10:22.722 --> 10:23.979 Thank you for your time and semper fi .