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What's Section 103?
Answer: Marine Corps Mission and Organization Fundamentals.
How many elements of the Marine Corps mission are there?
Answer: Seven.
What are the 7 elements of the Marine Corps mission?
Answer:
1. Provide Fleet Marine Forces with combined arms and supporting air
components for service with the U.S.
2. Provide detachments and organizations for service on armed vessels of the
Navy and security detachments.
3. Develop the doctrine, tactics, techniques, and equipment used by landing
forces in amphibious operations.
4. Provide Marine forces for airborne operations.
5. Develop the doctrine, procedures, and equipment for airborne operations.
6. Expand peacetime components to meet wartime needs.
7. Perform other duties as directed by the President.
How many parallel chains of command are there?
Answer: Two.
,What are the two parallel chains of command?
Answer: Service and Operational.
What is the Service chain of command?
Answer:
President of the United States
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Navy
Commandant of the Marine Corps
What is the Operational chain of command?
Answer:
President of the United States
Secretary of Defense
Commanders of combatant commands
The Marine Corps operating forces consist of?
Answer:
Marine Corps Forces
Marine Security Forces
Marine Security Guard
What is Marine Corps Force (MARFOR)?
Answer: Organized as Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (MAGTFs).
What are Marine Security Forces?
Answer: Approximately 3,400 Marines tasked with protecting key naval
installations and facilities worldwide.
, What is the Marine Security Guard (MSG)?
Answer:
Detachments stationed at embassies and consulates globally.
Assigned to 121 diplomatic posts in 115 countries.
What is the purpose of Headquarters Marine Corps?
Answer: It consists of the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the staff agencies
that advise him.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps is directly responsible to whom? And
for what?
Answer:
To the Secretary of the Navy.
For the overall performance of the Marine Corps.
What is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF)?
Answer: A combined arms force structure consisting of four elements: Command,
Ground Combat, Aviation Combat, and Combat Service Support, capable of rapid
response in various operational environments.
What is a Command Element (CE)?
Answer: The command and control component of a MAGTF, responsible for
coordinating and directing the operations of the task force.
The MEF Command Element (CE) consists of?
Answer: The MEF CE typically includes the command staff, such as the
commanding general, communications, intelligence, logistics, and operations
personnel.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
RATED A+ NEWLY UPDATED 2025
What's Section 103?
Answer: Marine Corps Mission and Organization Fundamentals.
How many elements of the Marine Corps mission are there?
Answer: Seven.
What are the 7 elements of the Marine Corps mission?
Answer:
1. Provide Fleet Marine Forces with combined arms and supporting air
components for service with the U.S.
2. Provide detachments and organizations for service on armed vessels of the
Navy and security detachments.
3. Develop the doctrine, tactics, techniques, and equipment used by landing
forces in amphibious operations.
4. Provide Marine forces for airborne operations.
5. Develop the doctrine, procedures, and equipment for airborne operations.
6. Expand peacetime components to meet wartime needs.
7. Perform other duties as directed by the President.
How many parallel chains of command are there?
Answer: Two.
,What are the two parallel chains of command?
Answer: Service and Operational.
What is the Service chain of command?
Answer:
President of the United States
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Navy
Commandant of the Marine Corps
What is the Operational chain of command?
Answer:
President of the United States
Secretary of Defense
Commanders of combatant commands
The Marine Corps operating forces consist of?
Answer:
Marine Corps Forces
Marine Security Forces
Marine Security Guard
What is Marine Corps Force (MARFOR)?
Answer: Organized as Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (MAGTFs).
What are Marine Security Forces?
Answer: Approximately 3,400 Marines tasked with protecting key naval
installations and facilities worldwide.
, What is the Marine Security Guard (MSG)?
Answer:
Detachments stationed at embassies and consulates globally.
Assigned to 121 diplomatic posts in 115 countries.
What is the purpose of Headquarters Marine Corps?
Answer: It consists of the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the staff agencies
that advise him.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps is directly responsible to whom? And
for what?
Answer:
To the Secretary of the Navy.
For the overall performance of the Marine Corps.
What is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF)?
Answer: A combined arms force structure consisting of four elements: Command,
Ground Combat, Aviation Combat, and Combat Service Support, capable of rapid
response in various operational environments.
What is a Command Element (CE)?
Answer: The command and control component of a MAGTF, responsible for
coordinating and directing the operations of the task force.
The MEF Command Element (CE) consists of?
Answer: The MEF CE typically includes the command staff, such as the
commanding general, communications, intelligence, logistics, and operations
personnel.
