OFFICE OF MARINE CORPS COMMUNICATION AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS MARINE CORPS COMMUNICATION PLAYBOOK Post-tr AMERICA’S MARINE TOMORROW’S CORPS Who We Are TODAY’S CRISES Where We Are Going What We Do Amphibious Combat Vehicle I MEF Large Scale Exercise 2014 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter II MEF Headquarters Marine Corps Force Integration Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams Plan San Francisco Fleet Week 2014 Pacific Reorientation RIMPAC 2014 VMGR-152 Transfer from Futenma to Sexual Assault Prevention and NEW Response (SAPR) Iwakuni TOP ISSUESTOP WHAT’S POINT OF CONTACT: HQMC USMC PA • Media Team • (703) 614-4309 Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 [email protected] AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS The bedrock of our Corps is the individual Marine. America’s Marine is an honorable and courageous AMERICA’S MARINE professional warrior, committed to serving the Nation and its citizens. We stand ready and eager to answer the call, whatever and wherever the mission. We are forged in hard training, made wise through years of combat, and imbued with an expeditionary mindset. We train and live hard, thrive in austerity, and embrace innovation. We are ethical warriors; courageous in battle, always faithful to our proud legacy, and an embodiment of just action, compassion, and AMERICA’S MARINE moral courage. America’s Marines are bonded through shared hardships, steadfast to our high standards, and, Who We Are together, form the fabric of a diverse and professional Corps of Marines. These ethos and the extraordinary warriors who exemplify them have and always will be the foundation of our Corps. NEW & UPDATED POINTS TALKING POINTS 2014 Semper Fidelis Football Program DSTRESS Line Camp Lejeune Historic Drinking Water Marine Corps 101 Civilian Manpower Review Marine Corps Force Integration Plan Community Counseling Program (CCP) San Francisco Fleet Week 2014 Diversity Sexual Assault Prevention and Female Dress Blue Uniform Response Keeping Faith Unit Personal and Family Readiness Kyle Carpenter to be Awarded the Medal of Honor Program and Family Readiness Officers Marine Corps Executive Forum Marine Week Seattle MCCS NAF Transformation Post-Traumatic Stress Reawakening Recruiting Transition Assistance Traumatic Brain Injury Tuition Assistance Victims’ Legal Counsel Organization (VLCO) Wounded Warrior Regiment WWR 2014 Marine Corps Trials *Please check with the PA POC on the briefing card or your command PAO prior to using these talking points to ensure you have the latest guidance. Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS The United States is a maritime nation, critically dependent on the global commons and a stable international order for our prosperity. However, today’s TODAY’S CRISIS new normal is a world of increasing instability, failing states, and conflict provoked by both conventional enemies and transnational threats. The Marine Corps is America’s insurance policy against an uncertain world. As our Nation’s force of first resort, the Marine Corps is uniquely suited to meet today’s and tomorrow’s security challenges. We are a highly capable, strategically mobile, ready force that responds to today’s crisis…today. We are a naval force that can influence potential crisis from the sea, as part of a highly effective Navy-Marine Corps team. Our purpose-built Marine Air Ground Task Force is optimized to provide relevant, stabilizing forward TODAY’S CRISES presence that deters conflict and, when necessary, fight and win to protect our What We Do Nation’s interests. Our expeditionary nature and legacy of enduring partnerships with allies throughout the Pacific rebalance. As responsible stewards of our nation’s resources during a time of austerity, the Marine Corps is inherently a cost-effective element of our Nation’s defense that yields significant return on investment. Ultimately, today’s Marine Corps is a necessary hedge against a world of uncertainty. We will forever remain most ready when the nation is least ready. NEW & UPDATED POINTS TALKING POINTS Afghanistan (RC-SW) Black Sea Rotational Force 14 Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams Pacific Reorientation Partnership Of The Americas Marine Rotational Force- Darwin Security Cooperation Team 2014 MEU Tracker Special-Purpose MAGTF Africa RIMPAC 2014 Special-Purpose MAGTF Crisis Response Tradewinds 2014 Special-Purpose MAGTF South I MEF Large Scale Exercise 2014 Value of the Corps *Please check with the PA POC on the briefing card or your command PAO prior to using these talking points to ensure you have the latest guidance. Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS As our Nation recovers from an unprecedented fiscal crisis, the Marine Corps is responsibly building a relevant, lean, and prudent force for the 21st TOMORROW’S CORP century. The emerging security threats to our Nation demand that America have a globally responsive, truly expeditionary, consistently ready maritime crisis response force…they demand America have a Marine Corps. While austerity may make us a leaner institution and a leaner force, we are committed to maintaining our readiness – the real measure of our ability to meet tomorrow’s threats. Our innovative spirit, strong leadership, and enduring stewardship of the Nation’s resources will guide our modernization, as has been our hallmark for more than two centuries. We will invest in our Marines as they are the cornerstone of our capability. We will reset our TOMORROW’S warfighting equipment and reconstitute our force after more than a decade CORPS of combat operations. We will maintain our investments in the research and development of new equipment and technologies that ensure our Nation’s Where We Are Going crisis response force remains relevant and ready. In the midst of austerity, these critical investments are America’s hedge against an uncertain tomorrow. NEW & UPDATED POINTS TALKING POINTS DPRI Amphibious Combat Vehicle End Strength and Retention Optimization VMGR-152 Transfer from Futenma to Group Iwakuni Expeditionary Energy II MEF Headquarters Expeditionary Force 21 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Foreign Area SNCO/Regional Area SNCO Program FY14 Community Outreach Plan Ground Equipment Reset Strategy Joint High Speed Vessel Marine Corps Enterprise Network Unification Plan Marine Corps Information Technology Center MV-22 Osprey *Please check with the PA POC on the briefing card or your command PAO prior to using these talking points to ensure you have the latest guidance. Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS INDEX INDEX LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER 2014 Semper Fidelis Football Program Marine Security Guard Expansion Afghanistan (RC-Southwest) Marine Week Seattle Amphibious Combat Vehicle MCCS NAF Transformation Black Sea Rotational Force 14 IMEF Large Scale Exercise Camp Lejeune Historic Drinking Water IIMEF Headquarters Civilian Manpower Review MEU Tracker Community Counseling Program MV-22 Osprey Diversity Pacific Reorientation DPRI Partnership Of The Americas DSTRESS Line Post-Traumatic Stress End Strength and Retention Optimization Reawakening Group Recruiting Expeditionary Energy RIMPAC 2014 Expeditionary Force 21 San Francisco Fleet Week 2014 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Security Cooperation Team 2014 Female Dress Blue Uniform Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team Special-Purpose MAGTF Africa Foreign Area SNCO/Regional Area SNCO Special-Purpose MAGTF Crisis Response Program Special- Purpose MAGTF South FY14 Community Outreach Plan Tradewinds 2014 Ground Equipment Reset Strategy Transition Assistance Joint High Speed Vessel Traumatic Brain Injury Keeping Faith Tuition Assistance Kyle Carpenter to be Awarded Medal of Value of the Corps Honor Victims’ Legal Counsel Organization (VLCO) Marine Corps 101 VMGR-152 Transfer From Futenma to Iwakuni Marine Corps Enterprise Network Unit Personal and Family Readiness Program Unification Plan and Family Readiness Officers Marine Corps Executive Forum Wounded Warrior Regiment Marine Corps Force Integration Plan Marine Rotational Force- Darwin Marine Corps Information Technology Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 Center AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS RESOURCES RESOURCES RESOURCES OTHER AVAILABLE RESOURCES WEBSITES VIDEOS Commandant of the Marine Corps Women in Service Briefing DoD Press Office Senate Armed Services Hearing on Cyber Security Sexual Assault in the Military “Lost Honor” DOCUMENTS STAY IN TOUCH White Letter 2-13: Commandants PA News Feed: @USMCnews Diversity Task Force Initiative Marines DoD Live SECDEF Statement on Sexual Assault USMC Facebook Prevention USMC Twitter USMC YouTube USMC Flickr Photo Stream Marine Corps Connection Current as of: Monday, June 23, 2014 AMERICA’S TODAY’S TOMORROW’S HOME INDEX RESOURCES MARINE CRISES CORPS MARINE CORPS 101 QUOTE “The Marine Corps is America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness – a balanced air-ground-logistics team. We are forward deployed and forward engaged: shaping, training, deterring and responding to all manner of crises and contingencies. We create options and decision space for our Nation’s leaders. Alert and ready, we respond to today’s crisis with today’s force…..TODAY.”