141 MARSOC Overview and Key Concepts Fundamentals Flashcards
Discuss the organization of MARSOC
MARSOC is the USMC component of USSOCOM that recruits, mans, organizes, trains and equip when directed by the CDRUSSOCOM. MARSOC has nearly 3,000 personnel
Discuss MARSOC components
Component:
MARFORSOC “Major General”
MRR “Colonel” > 1st, 2nd & 3rd MRB “LtCol”
MRTC “Colonel”
MRSG “Colonel” > H&S “Maj” 1st, 2nd & 3rd MRSB “LtCol”
Discuss MARSOC tasks
Direct Action (DA)
Special Reconnaissance (SR)
Counterterrorism (CT)
Foreign Internal Defense (FID)/Security Force Assistance (SFA)
Counterinsurgency (COIN)
Counter to Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD)
Hostage Rescue and Recovery (HRR)
Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA)
Military Information Support Operations (MISO)
Civil Affairs Operations (CAO)
Discuss the 5 SOF truths
1) Humans are more important than hardware
2) SOF cannot be mass produced
3) Quality is better than quantity
4) Compentent SOF ccannot be created after emergencies occur
5) Most SO require Non-SOF support
Discuss SOF Imperatives
- Understand the operational enviroment
- Recognize political implications
- Facilitate interagency activities
- Engage the threat discrminately
- consider long term effects
- Ensure legitmacy an credibility of SO
- Anticipate and control physchological effects
- Apply capabilities indirectly
- Develop multiple options
- Ensure long-term sustainment
- Provide sufficent intelligence
- Balance security and synchronization
Discuss MARSOC Preservation of the Force and Families (MPOTFF)
MPOTFF 6 Pillars: Human performance, Spritiual Perfromance, Family Readiness, Health Service Support, Safety and Transition. MPOTFF is to provide a “One stop shop”
Discuss the concept of MPOTFF
MPOTFF concept includes embedding support in units to build rapport with indiv members and their families in order to resolve issues and tools for anticpated stressors
