MARSOC G7 Joint Fires and Effects Training Integrator in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina at Threat Tec

The Joint Fires and Effects Training Integrator designs and scripts joint fires and effects training events in support of MARSOC collective training exercises, developing operationally relevant scenarios, exercise injects, and evaluation criteria that accurately reflect the targeting requirements and fires employment authorities governing special operations forces in denied, sensitive, and non-permissive environments. The integrator attends and supports training events as required, serving as the on-site joint fires subject matter expert throughout exercise execution. The integrator advises MARSOC G7 staff and unit leadership on fires integration procedures, targeting processes, and lethal effects employment throughout the training planning and execution cycle.

Prior to collective training events, the integrator conducts instruction for Marine Special Operations Companies (MSOCs) across all aspects of joint fires, including targeting processes, fires coordination procedures, and the transmission of targetable information across multiple data formats. This instruction encompasses K Series, J Series, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), and Variable Message Format (VMF) data standards, ensuring MSOC personnel are proficient in passing accurate, actionable targeting data across the full range of systems and communications architectures they will encounter in operational environments. The integrator develops and refines instructional materials, lesson plans, and practical exercises to support this pre-event training.

The integrator continuously researches, collects, and incorporates real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) drawn from conflicts and operations across the globe to inform MSOC joint fires and targeting training. Recognizing that the most operationally relevant fires environments often exist beyond the boundaries of established doctrine, the integrator actively monitors and analyzes how joint fires and targeting are being planned and executed in current and recent conflicts worldwide, identifying emerging practices, innovative employment methods, and lessons learned that doctrine has not yet captured. The integrator translates these real-world observations into training scenarios, academic instruction, and practical exercises that prepare MSOCs to operate effectively in ambiguous environments where doctrinal guidance is absent, incomplete, or insufficient.

The integrator serves as MARSOC G7's primary coordination point with external SOCOM components and conventional force partners for joint fires integration into MARSOC training events. This includes coordinating with other USSOCOM component commands and conventional units such as Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTFs) to synchronize participation in and contributions to the RAVEN exercise and other collective training events. The integrator works with these partners to identify and incorporate fires-specific academic instruction, ensuring training audiences receive operationally relevant academic support from joint and conventional fires communities. The integrator manages these external relationships throughout the training planning cycle, from initial coordination through exercise execution and after-action review, to maximize the joint fires learning value of each event.

The integrator proactively identifies and pursues additional training opportunities that expand MSOC access to targeting and joint fires experience beyond scheduled MARSOC collective training events. This includes researching joint, interagency, and service-component exercises, training programs, and events where MSOCs can participate and build proficiency in fires planning, targeting processes, and lethal effects employment. The integrator coordinates with MARSOC G7 leadership and external partners to facilitate MSOC inclusion in these opportunities, managing deconfliction with existing training schedules and ensuring each opportunity aligns with MARSOC training objectives and readiness requirements.

The integrator ensures MSOC training events are designed to develop proficiency in executing joint fires in support of a conventional Joint Task Force (JTF), reflecting the operational reality that MSOCs will increasingly operate as an integrated component of larger joint force formations. Training scenarios developed and supported by the integrator incorporate target development and Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) activities, building MSOC proficiency in the full targeting cycle from intelligence preparation through effects employment and assessment. The integrator designs training that leverages MSOC organic robotics and autonomous systems for both ISR and the delivery of lethal and non-lethal effects, ensuring units are proficient in integrating these emerging capabilities into fires planning, target development, and effects coordination within a conventional JTF framework. The integrator stays current on developments in autonomous systems, small unmanned systems, and related technologies to ensure training scenarios reflect the evolving character of the joint fires environment.

• The integrator conducts after-action reviews, identifies training gaps, and provides recommendations to MARSOC G7 leadership to continuously improve collective training programs.