TECOM: Modernizing Training, Education Will Be a Focus for Marines In FY 2022 - USNI News

If the commandant of the Marine Corps has focused his attention in his first year on the job tackling a Force Design 2030 effort to reshape how the Marine Corps gears up for a modern battlefield, the next year will focus on the training and manning issues that follow – ensuring the entire man, train and equip portfolio are brought up to date, the head of Marine Corps training said.

“He told us that he’s going to put a lot of effort this year into training and education and into manpower,” Marine Corps Training and Education Command commanding general Lt. Gen. Lewis Craparotta said Sept. 23 during a virtual Modern Day Marine presentation.
“And he’s stated publicly that we have to change our training and education system if we want to redesign the Marine Corps for the future. His commitment to training and education means that we’re going to get resourced to meet the needs to revise training and education.”

Among that resourcing, he said, would be at least $160 million to invest in live, virtual and constructive training systems, as well as range modernizations to allow for more sophisticated force-on-force training and instrumentation to collect data during training events. This funding would start in FY 2022 and continue throughout the five-year Future Years Defense Program.