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05-08-06, 06:53 PM
May 08, 2006
Corps cuts Warfighting PME course
Officers can sidestep Expeditionary Warfare School with Army course
By John Hoellwarth
Times staff writer
The Corps has made major changes to its education programs for officers and enlisted Marines, including canceling a key military correspondence course that, for years, has been a strict career education requirement for gunnery sergeants.
According to a Corps-wide message, MarAdmin 203/06, released May 1, the 7400-series Warfighting course has been canceled, “incorporated into other programs and courses throughout the [professional military education] continuum and is no longer a PME requirement for any grade throughout the total force.”
Sgt. Maj. Michael Hannacsh, director of enlisted PME for the Corps’ Education Command, said the Warfighting material has already been injected into the PME requirements of sergeants and staff sergeants. By the time a Marine makes gunny, he should have already learned the Warfighting lessons, and a requirement to relearn them is unnecessary, he said.
The change means gunnys will now spend less time on PME, according to Hannasch.
“It’s one less box of books to order,” he said.
Hannasch said PME for sergeants and staff sergeants has increased since 2004, when the Warfighting lessons began appearing in their courses.
Marines enrolled in the Warfighting course can finish it or “disenroll without prejudice,” the message said.
The message announces officer PME changes, too.
Captains normally complete a correspondence course through Expeditionary Warfare School to satisfy their PME requirement, but they can now sidestep EWS by enrolling in an Army program instead.
For more on this story, including the list of Army courses that fulfill captain PME requirements, check out this week’s Marine Corps Times.
Ellie
Corps cuts Warfighting PME course
Officers can sidestep Expeditionary Warfare School with Army course
By John Hoellwarth
Times staff writer
The Corps has made major changes to its education programs for officers and enlisted Marines, including canceling a key military correspondence course that, for years, has been a strict career education requirement for gunnery sergeants.
According to a Corps-wide message, MarAdmin 203/06, released May 1, the 7400-series Warfighting course has been canceled, “incorporated into other programs and courses throughout the [professional military education] continuum and is no longer a PME requirement for any grade throughout the total force.”
Sgt. Maj. Michael Hannacsh, director of enlisted PME for the Corps’ Education Command, said the Warfighting material has already been injected into the PME requirements of sergeants and staff sergeants. By the time a Marine makes gunny, he should have already learned the Warfighting lessons, and a requirement to relearn them is unnecessary, he said.
The change means gunnys will now spend less time on PME, according to Hannasch.
“It’s one less box of books to order,” he said.
Hannasch said PME for sergeants and staff sergeants has increased since 2004, when the Warfighting lessons began appearing in their courses.
Marines enrolled in the Warfighting course can finish it or “disenroll without prejudice,” the message said.
The message announces officer PME changes, too.
Captains normally complete a correspondence course through Expeditionary Warfare School to satisfy their PME requirement, but they can now sidestep EWS by enrolling in an Army program instead.
For more on this story, including the list of Army courses that fulfill captain PME requirements, check out this week’s Marine Corps Times.
Ellie