1. CURRENT OPERATIONS BRIEF
30 Oct 2014
PHOTO: Marine Corps and Royal Air Force helicopters fly in formation after departing Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Oct. 27, The Marine Corps ended operations in Helmand province and transferred the base to the Afghan National Army.

2. Outline USMC Personnel Operation Enduring Freedom
36th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Message For All Marines
USMC Personnel
Operation Enduring Freedom
Global Force Disposition
Marine Expeditionary Units
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
22d Marine Expeditionary Unit
11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

3. 36th COMMANDANT’S MESSAGE FOR ALL MARINES
Marines, I am truly honored and humbled to serve as your Commandant. I’d like to begin my tenure by thanking General and Mrs. Amos for their four decades of extraordinary service and commitment. They transition to the next phase of their lives with the admiration, appreciation, and affection of all Marines and their families.
The Marine Corps is in great shape.
We are recruiting and retaining high quality Marines who are fit, tough, and smart. Our Marines are well led, well trained, and well equipped. The infrastructure at our posts and stations -- our barracks, family housing and training facilities -- has been significantly enhanced over the past decade.
We remain forward deployed and forward engaged in the Pacific, South America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Just in the last year, we have responded to crisis in the Philippines, South Sudan, Libya, and Iraq. In Afghanistan, we have remained engaged in combat operations. We have clearly demonstrated our flexibility, versatility, and adaptability. Marines are relevant and in high demand.
We have answered the call and we have delivered! Throughout the last decade, Marines have enhanced their reputation as the Nation’s premier force in readiness. Today’s Marines, like their predecessors, can be very proud to claim the title United States Marine.
Despite these accomplishments, much work remains to be done. As Marines, we maintain the highest standards and we constantly seek to improve. We will continue to attack by:
-- Maintaining a first-rate, well-trained total force of Marines in a high state of readiness.
-- Prioritizing the support of those Marines in harm’s way.
-- Developing and fielding MAGTF capabilities that will ensure that the Marine Corps remains an innovative,
relevant, naval, expeditionary force-in-readiness.
-- Building upon our success in leader development, professional military education, wounded warrior care,
and family readiness.
Our Corps is informed by your input. I will continue to engage with Marines of all grades to solicit feedback. Your ideas will help us improve our warfighting and crisis response capabilities and provide the foundation for detailed Commandant’s Planning Guidance in the New Year.
Know that I’m extraordinarily proud to stand in your ranks.
Thanks for who you are and what you do.
Continue to march…
General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., took command as the 36th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The message can be retrieved from

4. Total on active duty: ~189,600 USMC Personnel Total Deployed: ~32,500
Total Afghanistan: ~1,600
PHOTO: The final six helicopters prepare to depart Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Oct. 27, The United States Marine Corps ended their operations in southwestern Afghanistan and transferred the base to the Afghan National Army.
Active Component - Operating Forces: ~110,500
Trainees, Transients, Patients, Prisoners: ~26,800
Supporting Establishment: ~49,300
Activated Reservists: ~800
Active Reserve: ~2,200
Total on active duty: ~189,600

5. Global Force Disposition
(As of 30 Oct 14)
Operations
~6,300
Amphibious Ops
~6,100
Exercises
~100
TSC
~580
WEST OF IDL
~21,900
Total Deployed**
~32,500
NORTHCOM: 1,900
EUCOM: ~700
AFGHANISTAN: ~1,600
OTHER CENTCOM: ~4,700
FAST PLTS
USEUCOM
USCENTCOM
USPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USSOUTHCOM
**Slide Construct: Numbers across the top will not add up to the total deployed. This is because some units are double counted. For example, the 31st MEU is captured in Amphibious Ops and in West of IDL numbers.
“Expeditionary Force 21 envisions a posture in which one-third of the Marine Corps’ operating forces will be persistently positioned forward, with a greater variety of unit types distributed appropriately across areas of command responsibility. This gives each GCC the three-fold advantages of forward presence: the recurring dividends available from “soft power”; deterrence derived from credible and capable response; and the freedom of action created by expanded operational reach and tactical flexibility. The Marine Corps will continue the process of tailoring our forward presence. This will enhance our ability to conduct sustained security cooperation activities and develop and maintain interoperability with partner nations, facilitate access, promote stability, deter adversaries, enhance the security of global commerce, and respond to crises as directed by the GCCs. Maintaining a forward-deployed posture to meet crisis response requirements and conduct theater security cooperation activities will require a total force effort to maintain a sustainable 1:2 deployment-to-dwell ratio for active forces and the operational use of reserve forces with a deployment-to-dwell ratio of 1:4.” (EF 21)
West of IDL – West of International Date Line, Marines forward deployed in PACOM AO.
MARSOC
USCENTCOM
USPACOM
OPERATIONS
AMPHIB OPERATIONS
EXERCISE/TSC
SOUTHCOM: ~100
AFRICOM: ~1,400
PACOM: ~22,000

6. JORDAN OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND
SPMAGTF-CR-cC
DET: 5th MAR, 2/7, vma-211, vmm-363, clb-5 ~2,400 pax
Kuwait/bahrain/JORDAN
isat
~10 PAX
IRAQ
JORDAN OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM
DET: IAs OPCON TO SPMAGTF-CR-CC ~20 pax
JORDAN
OEF-AFGHANISTAN
RC (SW) FORMAL END OF OPERATIONS
PAX AWAITING RETROGRADE
AMEMB SECFOR
Det: spmagtf-cr-cc ~150 PAX
BAGHDAD, IRAQ
AMEMB SECFOR
Det: msau ~20 PAX
erbil, IRAQ
UAE SECURITY COOPERATION
Det: MARCENT (FWD) ~50 PAX
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
11th MEU
~2,500 PAX
CENTcom
11th MEU - Currently operating in the CENTCOM AOR.
OEF-Afghanistan – RC(SW) formal end of operations on 28 October; Pax awaiting retrogade
Security Cooperation Team participating in the Jordan Operational Deployment Program (JODP) to develop Jordanian soldiers ‘proficiency in individual and collective skills.
Security Cooperation Team in UAE.
AMEMB SECFOR- Marines providing security to the American Embassies in Baghdad and Erbil, Iraq and Sana’a Yemen.
Iraq Security Assessment Team (ISAT) – Individual augments conducting assessments of Iraq Security.
Special Purpose MAGTF - Crisis Response – CentCom (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) - In response to the Joint Staff New Norm EXORD, SPMAGTF-CR-CC provides the Combatant Commander additional Crisis Response capability.
amemb SECFOR
DET: spmagtf-cr-cc (2/7) ~100 PAX
AMEMB SANA’A, YEMEN
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

7. U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND
PACOM WEST OF IDL
TOTAL ~21,900 PAX
OPFOR ~19,800 PAX
BASES/STATIONS ~2,100 PAX
KMEP 14-13
DET: III MAW ~ 700 PAX
ROK
31st MEU
~2,000 PAX
USPACOM
BLUE CHROMITE
DET: 4TH MAR ~1,000 PAX
PACOM
OEF-P JSOTF
DET: 3d MARDIV, 3d RAD BN ~50 PAX
PHILIPPINES
HARI HAMUTUK 15
DET: 3d MARDIV ~50 PAX
TIMOR LESTE
31st MEU – Currently operating in the PACOM AOR, retrograded to Okinawa, Japan.
OEF- Philippines - Operational support from III MEF
Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP) – Conduct of bilateral training in order to maintain proficiency at maneuver with integrated combined arms.
HARI HAMUTUK 15 – Conduct of engineering exercise through bilateral and regional cooperation IOT build mil-to-mil relations.
BLUE CHROMITE – 4th Marine Regiment conducts amphibious exercise to address deficiencies, rehearse integration of arms and replicate scenario employment missions.
PACOM West of International Date Line – Includes permanent personnel stationed in PACOM AO in the operating forces (MEU CE, 4th Mar, Combat Assault Battalion) and bases and stations. Does not include Marines stationed in Hawaii.
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

8. U.S. AFRICA COMMAND
SPMAGTF-CR-AF
DET: 26th MEU, 2/2, VMM-264, CLB-2 ~1,400 pax
MORON, SPAIN / nassig, Italy
MAINTENANCE TCT
DET: SPMAGTF-CR-AF ~10 PAX
GULF OF GUINEA
Cjtf-hoa
DET: MARFORAF ~50 PAX
djibouti
AMEMB SECFOR
DET: SPMAGTF-CR-AF DET ~50 PAX
BANGUI, CAR
OP ONWARD LIBERTY
DET: MARFORAF ~20 PAX
LIBERIA
OP UNITED ASSISTANCE
DET: SPMAGTF-CR-AF ~100 PAX
LIBERIA
LOGISTCS / ENGINEER TRAINING
DET: SPMAGTF-CR-AF ~50 PAX
UGANDA / BURUNDI
CJTF HOA Comm Det and IA’s supporting enduring OEF missions in the Horn of Africa.
Operation ONWARD LIBERTY (OOL) – Liberian Defense Sector Reform (LSDR); commenced in Jan of 2002 and continues through MARFORAF provides mentorship and training to the Armed Forces of Liberia IOT professionalize the force.
Special Purpose MAGTF - Crisis Response – Africa (SPMAGTF-CR-AF) - In response to the Joint Staff New Norm EXORD, SPMAGTF-CR-CC provides the Combatant Commander additional Crisis Response capability. SPMAGTF-CR-AF’s headquarters is located in Moron, Spain and has detachments located in Sigonella, Italy and MK, Romania.
American Embassy SECFOR – A SPMAGTF-CR-AF det conducting security operations in support of newly opened Embassy in Bangui.
Operation United Assistance – assist in the overall U.S. Government Foreign Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief efforts to contain the spread of the Ebola Virus/Disease, as part of the international assistance effort supporting the Governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Logistics/engineer training – directed to train and equip local forces IOT prepare them for future African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) deployments.
Maintenance TCT – Capacity building training event to maintain Gulf of Guinea access and contact with African militaries.
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

9. U.S. EUROPE COMMAND
SPMAGTF-CR-AF DET
~200 PAX
ROMANIA
Black sea rotational force
DET: MARFOReur ~250 PAX
romania
Georgia deployment program-isaf 2
DET: MARFOREUR ~100 PAX
georgia
Georgia Deployment Program – Resolute Support Mission (RSM) – Execute a program to organize, train, equip, deploy and redeploy three Georgian Infantry BN’s in order to conduct force protection and Quick Reaction Force (QRF) missions in support of (ISO) the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) in Afghanistan. The execution of GDP-RSM is intended to continue improving the government of Georgia’s ability to initiate and sustain the deployment of its forces to Afghanistan while increasing Georgia’s additional force contribution in support of the Afghanistan mission. GDP-RSM constitutes a combination of the training program of Georgian forces for ISAF.
Black Sea Rotational Force (BSRF) – deploys in support for COMMARFOREUR crisis and contingency response while also conducting TSC activities in the EUCOM AO.
SPMAGTF-CR-AF Det B– Force protection company
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

10. U.S. SOUTH COMMAND
CIVIL AFFAIRS/MISO MTT
DET: MARForsouth ~10 pax
HONDURAS
PERU PTP MTT
DET: MARForsouth ~10 pax
PERU
Peru Pre-Deployment Training – Conduct and supervision of CTOC training including small unit infantry tactics and riverine skills
Civil Affairs/MISO MTT – mil-to-mil exchange with Honduran Marine Corps to focus on civil affairs assessments and human terrain mapping.
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

11. U.S. NORTH COMMAND 22nd MEU – Returned to homeport.
BOLD ALLIGAToR
DET: II MEF ~1,000 pax
EAST COAST
22d MEU
RETURNED TO HOMEPORT
15th MEU
Pre-deployed
Camp PENDLETON
24th MEU
Pre-deployed
Camp lejeune
22nd MEU – Returned to homeport.
24th MEU – Pre-Deployed in Camp Lejeune conducting MEU exercises
15th MEU - Pre-Deployed in Camp Pendleton conducting MEU exercises
JTF-N - DoD tactical support ISO US Border patrol. They have assisted in the seizure of Marijuana and Undocumented Aliens (UDAS) crossing the border.
JTF-N border patrol support
DET: MARFORRES ~30 pax
Texas border area
OPERATION
EMBARKED WITH USN
USMC EXERCISE/TSC

12. Marine Expeditionary Units
13th MEU
CAMP PENDLETON, CA
26th MEU
CAMP LEJEUNE, NC
24th MEU
CAMP LEJEUNE
15th MEU
CAMP PENDLETON
11th MEU
CENTcom
31st MEU
PAcom
22d MEU
NORTHCOM
Photos (from left to right):
MV-22B Ospreys with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Aviation Combat Element, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 (Reinforced) conduct flight operations aboard the USS Iwo Jima during the MEU’s fourth and final pre-deployment exercise, Combined Unit Training Exercise. The MV-22B Osprey is designed for expeditionary assault support, raid operations, cargo lift and special warfare. It has the ability to carry 24 combat-loaded Marines five times the distance and two times the speed of its predecessor, the CH-46 Sea Knight. The Osprey can take off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane.
A machine gunner with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fires an M240B machinegun during a gunners qualification aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), Oct. 19. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the embarked 11th MEU are deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Laura Y. Raga/Released)
U.S. Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a conditioning hike Camp Lejeune, Sept. 4, The Marine hiked with flack and Kevlar to enhance mission readiness and insure physical endurance capabilities are met in combat situations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jeraco Jenkins/Released).
PRE-DEPLOYED
DEPLOYED
POST-DEPLOYED 12 12 12

13. 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
COL R. DASMALCHI
BLT 3/5, VMM-262 (REIN), VMA-542, CLB– DEPLOYMENT DATES: MAY 14 – NOV 14
USS PELELIU (LHA-5) USS GERMANTOWN (LSD-42)
14.1/14.2 TURNOVER
MAY 14
SOTG COURSES
JUN 14
BI-LATERAL TSC
JUN - AUG 14
SQUAD INFANTRY TSC - TAIWAN
AUG 14
PMEP
AUG 14
AMPHIB INTEGRATION TRAINING
SEP 14
TEMPEST WIND
SEP 14
CERTEX / PHIBLEX
OCT 14

14. 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT ASSESSMENT
COL W. R. DUNN
BLT 1/6, VMM-263 (REIN), CLB DEPLOYMENT DATES: FEB – OCT 2014
USS BATAAN (LHD-5) USS MESA VERDE (LPD-19) USS GUNSTON HALL (LSD-44)
PMINT
CAMP LEJUENE
OCT 2013
FRENCH BI-LAT
DJIBOUTI
MAY 2014
ARG-MEU EX
CAMP LEJUENE
NOV 2013
EAGER LION
JORDAN
JUN 2014
COMPTUEX
CAMP LEJUENE
DEC 2013
SUSTAINMENT TRAINING
KUWAIT
JUN/AUG 2014
SPANISH PHIBLEX
SPAIN
FEB 2014
HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT ASSESSMENT
IRAQ
AUG 2014
NOBLE SHIRLEY
ISRAEL
MAR 2014
RETUNED TO HOMEPORT
CAMP LEJUENE
OCT 2014
GREEK BI-LAT
GREECE
MAR 2014
SEA SOLDIER
OMAN
APR 2014

15. 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
COL M. G. TROLLINGER
BLT 2/1, VMM-163 (REIN), CLB DEPLOYMENT DATES: JUL 2014 – JAN 2015
USS MAKIN ISLAND (LHD-8) USS SAN DIEGO (LPD-22) USS COMSTOCK (LSD-45)
R2P2
CAMP PENDLETON
JAN 2014
COUGAR VOYAGE
CENTCOM
OCT 2014
PMINT
CAMP PENDLETON
APR 2014
SUSTAINMENT TRAINING
KUWAIT
OCT - NOV 2014
COMPTUEX
CAMP PENDLETON
MAY 2014
SUSTAINMENT TRAINING
DJIBOUTI
OCT - NOV 2014
CERTEX
CAMP PENDLETON
JUN 2014
SUSTAINMENT
TRAINING
HAWAII
JUN - AUG 2014
MALAYSIA MAREX
PACOM
AUG - SEP 2014
SUSTAINMENT TRAINING
SEP - OCT 2014

16. 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
COL S. F. BENEDICT
BLT 3/6, VMM-365 (REIN), CLB DEPLOYMENT DATES: DEC 2014 – JUL 2015
USS IWO JIMA (LHD-7) USS NEW YORK (LPD-21) USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD-43)
COMPOSITE
CAMP LEJEUNE
MAY 2014
RUT
CAMP LEJEUNE/FT. EUSTIS
JUL 2014
PMINT
CAMP LEJEUNE
AUG 2014
ARG MEU EX
CAMP LEJEUNE
SEP 2014
COMPTUEX
CAMP LEJEUE
OCT 2014
CONDUCTING BOLD ALLIGATOR
OCT- NOV 2014

17. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit PRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING
COL V. L. CRYER
BLT 3/1, VMM-161 (REIN), CLB DEPLOYMENT DATES: APR – NOV 15
USS ESSEX (LHD-2) USS ANCHORAGE (LPD-23) USS RUSHMORE (LSD-47)
COMPOSITE
CAMP PENDLETON
OCT 2014
CONDUCTING
PRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING
OCT 2014

18. USMC Future Force Posture 2014-2020
UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO
USMC Future Force Posture
The Nation’s Crisis Response Force forward deployed and poised to rapidly respond to Crises within the arc of instability and within regions of anticipated future conflicts.
In an era of fiscal austerity, force reductions, and uncertainty associated with the “New Norm” environment, the USMC Future Force Posture Plan thickens the forward deployed Marine force posture and provides more flexibility in employing the ARG/MEU within each Geographic Combatant Command (GCC) coupled with an inherent reach-back capability for additional USMC CONUS-Based CR Forces providing the NSS and Joint Staff with myriad Crisis Response options while gaining efficiencies in meeting GCC Security Cooperation and Security Force Assistance requirements.
MCPP-N
CONUS-Based
1st & 2nd MEB CR
SPMAGTF-CR-CC
SPMAGTF-CR-AF
III MEF
Alert
Contingency MAGTF
Elements of III MEF
ARG/MEU
ARG/MEU
MCRF-S
MPSRON 3
Elements of
SPMAGTF CR
MRF-Guam
MPSRON 2
SPMAGTF-CR-SC
MRF-Darwin
Choke Points
Piracy
Regions of Naval Maneuver
Current force posture
Current Basing Support
MPSRON
Future force posture
Arc of instability
Updated: 10 Oct 2014
The Future Force Posture Plan (multiple forward deployed tailored MAGTFs) gains efficiencies and provides a sustainable, enduring, world-wide CR capability.

19. CURRENT OPERATIONS BRIEF
THIS CONCLUDES THE
CURRENT OPERATIONS BRIEF
PHOTO: U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regional Command (Southwest) (RC(SW)) exit a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter aboard Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan, Oct. 27, The Marines transitioned to KAF following the end of RC(SW) operations in Helmand province. (Official U. S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Dustin D. March/Released)