Saved Rounds 9/17

Articles, resources, and responses for your weekend coffee

Editor’s Note: Saved Rounds is a weekly post for the CxFile Staff to share articles, resources, and responses we’ve found to the wider audience.

Have an article or book you want to share with the community? Have a reaction or response to one of our posts? Send your traffic and we’ll serve as your retrans site.

Whether ITX is on your TEEP or not, the TTECG Sharepoint is a treasure trove of information at your fingertips. You need a CAC card to get inside, but once there, you will find all sorts of products that you can use to teach yourself, teach your Marines, cite/reference, and plan training with. From doctrine to training plans, you could spend months data mining this fantastic resource. 

Some examples include:

-ITX event handbooks you can use to learn about an event you will conduct there, or use to model your own home station training;

-Higher orders templates you can use to develop your own or subordinate orders from including Ranges 410/410A, 400/401, 230, etc;

-ITX powerpoint classes of important topics such as Surface Fires/Aviation Deconfliction or the FiST Battle Drill;

-Publications on nearly every topic from "Big D" to "Little d" doctrine. Subjects include the Army, Operational Environments, Urban, MOS's, Weapons, and so on; of particular note are TTECG pubs. These are not official doctrinal publications, but a collection of best practices observed over the course of years of iterations. A good example of this is the Company FiST Handbook, which is the BEST written source on this topic;

-Archived items for classes or events that TTECG no longer supports, such as the legacy Delta Corridor Mechanized Assault Course; in the event you want to replicate this event in a TEWT or your MCCRE;

-Imagery.

-And so much more.

Insert your CAC and go to:

Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group (marines.mil)

Once there, click on "TT&ECG SHAREPOINT" in the top right corner and have an external hard drive ready because you can fill a library with the free information stashed away on this sharedrive. An especially great place to surf and pass the time while standing OOD, this site is guaranteed to keep you up all night.

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