Fiscal Year 2027 Marine Corps Lessons Learned Collection Campaign Plan and Collection Priorities

1.  Purpose.  This MARADMIN announces the Fiscal
Year (FY) 2027 Marine Corps Lessons Learned Collection Campaign
Plan (CCP) as well as identifies other collection priorities for
the CDAO, TECOM.
2.  Background.  The CCP was developed in conjunction with MCCLL
Program Analysts embedded in the Fleet Marine Force (FMF),
Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC), and Marine Corps force component
commands (MARFOR), following the completion of a Marine Corps wide
data call for lessons learned collection topics.  The topics
nominated and selected are considered to have significant value to
both the FMF, MARFORs, and Supporting Establishment and will provide
actionable information to influence change in doctrine; operational
tactics, techniques, and procedures; and / or be informative to HQMC
and Deputy Commandants (DC); as well as doctrine, organization,
training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities,
policy and warfighting function stakeholders for resource application
deliberations and decisions.  Selection criteria used to evaluate all
topics included linkages to the 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Planning Guidance (Aug 2024); Commanding General, TECOM Campaign Plan
2025; Analytic Master Plan - Marine Corps (AMP-MC) draft FY27 Service
Level Analytic Guidance; Force Design, as well as commander
identified priorities.  Topic selection criteria also included ties 
to naval integration and Marine Corps operating concepts.
3.  This CCP provides a baseline for MCCLL FY27 collection execution
and will be modified as required based on emerging events and issues
and input from HQMC, the FMF, MARFORs, and the Supporting
Establishment.  For each collection effort, MCCLL will coordinate a
feasibility of support request with those commands that are directly
impacted.  Each collection will result in a MCCLL final report.
4.  MCCLL formal FY27 collections include (primary Marine Corps
commands impacted and scheduling in parenthesis):
4.a.  Joint Task Force (JTF) 84-2 Operation Southern Spear (JTF 84-2,
II Marine Expeditionary Force [MEF], 2nd Marine Division [MARDIV]:
Quarter [Q] 3 FY26 through Q1 FY27)
4.b.  Operation Epic Fury, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (31st
MEU, Marine Central Command [MARCENT], Expeditionary Operations
Training Group [EOTG]:  moved from FY27 to Q4 FY26)
4.c.  11th MEU 26.1 Western Pacific Deployment (11th MEU, Amphibious
Squadron [PHIBRON] 5: Q1)
4.d.  24th MEU Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF)
(24th MEU, 2nd Radio Battalion [BN]: Q1)  
4.e.  Exercise Keen Sword 2027 (Marine Forces Pacific [MARFORPAC], 
I MEF, III MEF and Major Subordinate Commands [MSC], III MEF 
Information Group [MIG], 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment [MLR], 
12th MLR, Marine Corps Installations Pacific [MCIPAC], Marine Corps
Warfighting Laboratory [MCWL]: Q1)
4.f.  Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D) 26.3 (I MEF, I MIG,
1st MARDIV, 1st Marine Logistics Group [MLG], MRF-D and Major
Subordinate Elements [MSE]: Q1)
4.g.  Marine Corps Engineer Detachment (Det.) - Pacific (MCED-P)
26.2 (MCED-P, MARFORPAC, I MEF, 3rd MAW, 1st MLG, 7th Engineer
Support Battalion [ESB]): Q2)  
4.h.  I MEF Exercise (MEFEX) 2027 (I MEF and MSCs, 3rd MLR,
Marine Corps Installations - West [MCI-W], MAGTF Staff Training
Program [MSTP] Division: Q2)
4.i.  4th MLG Reorganization (1st, 2nd, 3rd MLG; 4th MLG and its
MSEs; Marine Forces Reserve [MARFORRES]; DC Plans, Policy,
Operations [PP&O]; DC CD&I: Q2)
4.j.  Exercise Arctic Edge 2027 (2nd Marine Aircraft Wing [MAW]
and its MSEs, MCWL:  Q3)
4.k.  Employment and Training of Organic Precision Fires (OPF) -
Light Systems (Light Armored Reconnaissance [LAR] BNs;
Reconnaissance BNs; Marine Special Operations Command [MARSOC];
MLR Littoral Combat Teams [LCT]; Battalion Landing Team [BLT] 2nd
BN, 4th Mar [2/4]; DC CD&I; TECOM; Marine Corps Systems Command
[MARCORSYSCOM]:  Q3)
4.l.  Exercise Balikatan 2027 (I MEF JTF Certification Phase 1)
(I MEF and its MSCs, 3rd MLR, MCI-W:  Q3)
4.m.  Exercise Pacific Sentry 2027 (I MEF JTF Certification Phase 2)
(I MEF and its MSCs, III MEF, 3rd MLR, MCI-W:  Q3)
4.n.  MARCENT Command of Subordinate Units During Operation Epic Fury
(MARCENT, Task Force (TF) 51/5 and MSEs, Marine Corps Information
Operations Center [MCIOC], Weapons Training Battalion [WTBN], DC
Information [I]:  Q4)
4.o.  MARFORRES Mobilization Exercise 2027 (MARFORRES and its 
MSCs and their MSEs:  Q4)
4.p.  Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) - 112 Unit Deployment
Program (UDP) 27.1 (MARFORRES, I MEF, III MEF, 1st MAW, 3rd MAW, 4th
MAW, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) -41, MAG-12, VMFA-112:  Q4)      
5.  Other collection priorities for FY27 include:
5.a.  Publishing of lessons learned trend reports at six-month
intervals.  These trend reports will provide issues and best
practices from the synthesis of information collected and archived
by CDAO, TECOM.  The source information is drawn primarily from
unit submitted After Action Reports (AAR), though will include 
other lesson learned related products.  A trend report's primary
purpose is to serve as input to issue resolution processes, as well
as to inform operational planning and leader decisions.
5.b.  Unit AARs from operations, exercises, service-level training,
Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE), and home station
training events are an important and essential foundation of the
MCLLP and provide a first step in providing a threat-based
understanding of how we fight.  These detailed AARs and lessons
learned reports will continue to inform and adapt our warfighting
functions, operating concepts, and force design.  Consequently,
timely submission of AARs to MCCLL for them to be meta-tagged,
stored, and made available across the Marine Corps electronically
is essential. Using the AAR template provided on the homepage of
MCCLL's unclassified and classified SharePoint sites improves the
results of the artificial intelligence and machine learning
capabilities being employed.
5.c.  Reference (b) defines the process by which TECOM identifies
service-level training trends for incorporation into the Trends
Reversal and Reinforcement Process (TRRP). This process also
facilitates the dissemination of lessons learned to improve
awareness across the FMF, enhance force generation, and improve unit
readiness.  Per ref (b), the collection and analysis of Systemic
Trends Reports (STR) and AARs from TECOM MSCs to identify systemic
service-level trends for the TRRP is a high priority.  Per ref (a),
FMF and SE organizations can submit potential trends for TRRP
validation using the unresolved trends submission template available
on the MCCLL NIPR website (see paragraph 7) under the MCCLL Templates
dropdown menu at the top of the homepage.  As appropriate, results
from these submissions will be onboarded to the TECOM HQ TRRP,
resolution courses of action will be developed and briefed at the
Assessments Working Group for decision or further recommendation.
TECOM MSC STRs can be emailed to the group mailbox,
SMB_MCCLL_OPS@usmc.mil or the message point of contact can provide
coordinating instructions. 
6.  Units are encouraged to leverage the assistance provided by MCCLL
analysts embedded with the FMF, select MARFORs, and HQMC. Embedded
analysts have the task to execute CCP collections, collect and
facilitate AAR submissions from their supported commands, as well
as to collect other valuable information such as exercise hotwash
briefs and unit standing operational procedure documents.  The point
of contact information for embedded analysts can be accessed on the
MCCLL SharePoint homepage.  Any command that is not directly
supported by a MCCLL analyst can contact the message point of
contact, or email the group mailbox at SMB_MCCLL_OPS@usmc.mil.
7.  The Marine Corps FY27 Lessons Learned CCP with amplifying
information on each collection is found on the MCCLL NIPR website
homepage, at https://usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/sites/tecom_mccll.
The classified SIPR website can be accessed at
https://usmc.spo.microsoft.scloud/sites/TECOM_MCCLL/Pages/MCCLL.aspx.
These websites contain a vast amount of Marine Corps lessons learned
information. Along with a robust archive search function, the sites
contain topical pages of items consolidated on various subjects, as
well as libraries of MCCLL reports and unit AARs.
8.  Release authorized by Lieutenant General Thomas B. Savage, 
Commanding General, Training and Education Command / Deputy 
Commandant for Training and Education.