![]() ![]() Organizations do the things they value most. The culture of any organization is created and sustained by its activities all the things it does. As an additional benefit, MCTIS will make the Marine Corps more interoperable with NATO allies since many of them have been using this system for the past two decades. Ultimately, a change in community culture can create backpressure forcing the manpower system to support development of expertise instead of all things supporting the manpower model at the expense of meaningful readiness. The awareness MCTIS provides will drive immediate change in how leaders prioritize and conduct training. The potential exists for a Marine’s tactical ability, grit, mental agility, and leadership to become primary factors for promotion and command selection since these critical characteristics can now be better understood. MCTIS will radically change Marine infantry and ground culture for the better in the way Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) did for the Marine aviation community. This allows objective evidence to underpin and facilitate both on-the-spot critique and formal AARs. MCTIS has the capability to record, replay, and interrogate tactical ground operations from any scale, angle, and rate of playback while simultaneously capturing on-going events. ![]() Individual and unit casualty status are continuously monitored as are location, distance traveled, and specific routes used. The system generates data on direct and indirect fire events (who shot whom, when, and with what) as well as round count by hits, effective suppression, misses, and range with capability to sort by weapon type, individual, or unit echelon. At Exercise Control, fratricide events are immediately highlighted to MCTIS system operators. The system informs the Marine of wound location and severity through audio, visual, and haptic feedback while simultaneously disabling the individual’s weapon for a set period depending on seriousness of wound and administration of self- or buddy-aide. The objective feedback comes in three main forms: The system then applies an algorithm incorporating an individual’s level of personal protection to include cover, whether standing or prone, body armor level, and wound status. MCTIS assesses casualties once a Marine is hit by a direct fire weapon laser or is within the effective casualty radius of a simulated indirect weapon munition or mine. The system tracks and records every shot from instrumented Marines, simulates ballistics, and employs augmented reality for minefields and other obstacles. Arriving in 2023, the Marine Corps Tactical Instrumentation System (MCTIS) will improve combat lethality by simulating weapons effects and providing objective feedback to blank-fire force-on-force (FoF) training. ![]() The infantry community will be able to see, understand, and better itself with objective data for the first time. įortunately, this is all about to change. Even if experts did view our training, their assessments would have been subjective allowing those critiqued wiggle room to believe what they want. No one ever did come to see how we trained our Marines, and I am sure the number of people who would be able to make a valid assessment is smaller than the Corps would like to believe. I asked him whether he knew or cared about how we were teaching Marines once we were inside the tree line training tactics. The Marine Corps ground community-the infantry in particular-has not developed a way to measure what is important, so it makes important what it can measure. As the Commanding Officer at Infantry Training Battalion-East (ITB-E) in 2010, I received a call from Training and Education Command asking why our morning physical training events did not mirror those of Infantry Training Battalion-West. The caller was a retired infantry colonel who had commanded School of Infantry-East, ITB-E’s parent command. The ability to adjudicate and analyze the results of training in real-time will enable truly effective training at every echelon of command.” -BGen Matthew Reid, Deputy Commanding General, Training and Education Command The professional military education implications of FoFTS-Next cannot be overstated. “Detailed after-action reports created by this system will also inform and influence how we fight in the present and create new tactics, techniques, and procedures to succeed in the future. ![]()
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