The Marines on the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms have been involved in exercises involving weapons and tactics training. Managing editor Tami Roleff says the Service Level Training exercise creates a credible, realistic wargame for the Marines…
Service Level Training helps Marines learn strategic ways to plan missions based off real combat situations. The SLT combines the integrated training exercise; adversary force exercise (the non-combatant exercise—or evacuation of civilians from a country or situation—was part of this); mountain warfare exercise in Bridgeport; and culminates in the Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force, or MAGTF warfighting exercise. Chief Warrant Officer 5 Raymond Brown with the training command, fills in the details.
“The MWX, the MAGTF warfighting exercise, utilizes the entire MAGTF by providing a venue that’s large enough for all entities of the MAGTF to replicate an environment that requires the GCE (ground control element), the ACE (air control element), and LCE (logistics combat element) to function their tasks appropriately to gain some measure of necessity to coordinate and plan training based off real combat conditions.”
MWX is a full-scale exercise that requires the participating units to be innovative and adapt to ever-evolving adversaries by challenging the Marines to fight against a free-thinking adversary with similar capabilities.
