SPMAGTF(X) MOUT Training Program of Instruction

General Information

1. The Following information is provided for this Program of Instruction.

a. BACKGROUND: This is the third edition of the SPMAGTF(X) MOUT Training POI. This edition incorporates lessons learned, doctrine, and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) from various sources applied to close terrain and the urban environment. This manual is an ongoing effort developed to support the Urban Warrior experimentation with input from the Fleet Marine Force (FMF), Special Operations Training Group (SOTG), British Army, and U.S. Army units. It is written with an eye toward providing Marine Corps units with a user friendly, easy reference document for use in a unit training program.

The first two editions of this document were written by SPMAGTF(X) MOUT Instructors to facilitate their ability to teach FMF units in MOUT TTPs and establish a baseline for experimentation. However, once word of this document reached the FMF, many units requested copies to assist in the conduct of their own unit training. Accordingly, this document is greatly expanded and provides lesson plans as well as other administrative and logistics considerations for the implementation of the proposed fourteen training day schedule.

Primarily, this MOUT Training POI, like any good training program, works on several levels – or tiers. The first tier focuses on the squad leader and below. Working and fighting in the urban environment is mentally, morally, and physically demanding. The squad leader, and even team leaders and individual Marines, may find themselves operating as an independent unit, oftentimes cut off in time or space from adjacent and higher level units. As a result, the squad leader is the focus of the majority of this POI and suggested training schedule.

The second tier focuses on the leadership levels of the platoon and higher. For the purpose of the POI, the Leadership Tier includes the platoon sergeant through the company commander. This tier focuses less on individual or unit skills and more on planning and execution considerations which platoon and company leadership must master in order to ensure success in this highly demanding environment. For an initial training block, this information may overwhelm the individual rifleman whose individual team, team, and squad skills are vital to the success of the rifle company. A unit may choose to disseminate this information to lower levels at a later time, as training availability and proper mission analysis may dictate.

The third tier focuses on specialized skills within an infantry battalion. For example, this manual includes a full POI for 0331, 0341, 0351/2, and 8541 MOSs. MOS specific schools or courses can in all likelihood provide these classes, with greater MOS specific credibility than this manual. For example, SOTG may offer an urban sniper course, and the School of Infantry (SOI) may offer urban machine gun leader and urban mortar leader courses.

It is the responsibility of individual units to plan and execute their training. This manual merely offers a starting point, some expertise, and a solid pre-existing plan on which to base a program. Hopefully this manual will spark ideas and assist unit leaders in their ability to execute safe, realistic, life saving training for their units.

b. ORGANIZATION: This manual is divided into eight sections.

(1) Section I contains administrative and logistics notes to assist the individual unit in the planning and execution of their specific training schedules.

(2) Section II contains the classes for tier one instruction, focused at the squad leader and below.

(3) Section III contains classes for tier two - the leadership tier – and focuses on the platoon sergeant through the company commander.

(4) Section IV contains more administrative notes in the form of example tactical decision games (TDGs), and situation and field training exercises.

(5) Section V contains the urban sniper training package.

(6) Section VI contains example mission essential tasks lists for the major subordinate elements of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) sized MAGTF as well as the mission performance and individual training standards currently in the Marine Corps Orders system that may apply to operation in the urban environment.

(7) Section VII is a glossary of acronyms and terms used throughout this manual.

(8) Section VIII contains a suggested reading list.

2. The following information is provided for each concept card.

a. LESSON DESIGNATOR: Each lesson is identified with a Roman numeric code and section code.

b. LESSON TITLE: This is the tile assigned to each lesson. The title incorporates the task required of each lesson whenever possible.

c. HOURS: Length of the subject taught in hours.

d. METHOD: The method(s) of instruction that will be used to teach the learning objectives are listed below:

L – Lecture
PA – Practical Application
D – Demonstration
DI – Discussion Groups
WT – Walkthrough
BF – Blank Fire
V – Video
A – Administration/Logistics Time
STX – Situational Training Exercise
FTX – Field Training Exercise

e. TRAINING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: This category includes a list of the media and logistics required with each lesson and practical application. The codes are listed below:

MB – Magnetic Board
OHP – Overhead Projector (w/laptop projection capability)
VP – Video Projector
VCR – VCR
PS – Projection Machine

f. INDIVIDUAL TRAINING STANDARD(S) (ITS): The standards used to specify individual training proficiency requirements (tasks) that support unit mission performance. They include a task (behavior), conditions, proficiency standards (often steps), and references. ITSs constitute the basis for design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all individual training conducted in units and institutions.

g. MISSION PERFORMANCE STANDARD(S) (MPSs): Criteria that specify mission and functional area proficiency standards for combat, combat support, and combat service support units. They include tasks, conditions, standards, evaluator instruction, and key indicators. MPSs are contained within MCCRES volumes.

h. LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S): The learning objectives list what the student is expected to know and perform upon completion of the MOUT POI. A learning objective is a statement of what a student will do to show that he has mastered the skill. A learning objective has three parts:

(1) The Behavior: Tells what action the student will do in order to achieve the objective.
(2) The Condition: Tells what help the student has or what limits are placed on the student’s performance.
(3) The Standard: Tells how well the student must perform. The student has mastered the objectives when the performance equals or exceeds the standard. The evaluation of the MOUT POI will be done through practical application and evaluation by the instructors.

i. TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S) (TLOs): The actual or as close of an approximation of the action or performance required by the task, within the limits of the academic environment.

j. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S) (ELOs): Designed to teach the student the required prerequisite knowledge and skills necessary to perform the TLO.

k. LESSON PURPOSE/SCOPE: Identifies instruction where no learning objectives are appropriate and gives a clear statement why the lesson is presented.

l. REFERENCE: Source documents used for development of lessons.

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