MCO 1553.3C governs the Marine Corps Unit Training Management Program and standards-based training for combat readiness.
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It covers mission essential tasks, training and readiness standards, unit training plans, training events, and formal learning venues. It requires commanders and units to plan, evaluate, and progressively improve training aligned with those standards.
Applies to: This Order provides policy for the implementation of the UTM Program throughout the Marine Corps in order to aid commanders in the development and execution of training plans that will ensure all Marines and Marine units attain and sustain combat readiness.
The UTM Program combines and applies Marine Corps training principles and the Systems Approach to Training and Education (SATE) to the design and implementation of a unit training plan. (paragraph 4)
Commanders review and validate their assigned mission essential task list (METL), comprised of core tasks assigned by unit type and other tasks as deemed necessary by higher headquarters (HHQ), mission, or commander’s discretion. (paragraph 4)
The commander is responsible for the unit’s training. (paragraph 1)
All training is aligned to T&R standards, derived from the unit’s METs. (paragraph 2)
T&R manuals provide a building block approach for progressively challenging training, from individual to collective events that support MET proficiency. (paragraph 1)