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Developing Better Decision Makers through Wargaming

In the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Planning Guidance, the Commandant writes, “wargaming needs to be used more broadly to fill what is arguably our greatest deficiency in the training and education of leaders: practice in decision making against a thinking enemy.” Recently, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) attempted to do just this by incorporating history based wargaming into the unit’s already existing reading and PME program.

22nd MEU Returns from Seven-Month Deployment

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Sailors and Marines assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) returned home to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 9, 2022 after completing a seven-month deployment with the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) in the U.S. Naval Sixth Fleet area of operations. The Kearsarge ARG is comprised of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), and the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44).

USS Arlington (LPD 24), 22 MEU Arrives in Alexandroupoli, Concluding ATG22

The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), attached to the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), arrived in Alexandroupoli, Greece for a scheduled port visit, May 21, 2022.

USS Arlington (LPD 24), 22 MEU arrive in Turkey for Turkish exercise EFES

San Antonio-class dock landing ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), attached to the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), arrived off the coast of Izmir, Turkey in support of Turkish multinational exercise EFES Combined Joint Live-Fire Exercise 2022 (EFES22), May 27, 2022.

USS Arlington (LPD 24), 22 MEU Arrive in Greece for Bilateral Training

The San Antonio-class dock landing ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), attached to the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), arrives in Volos, Greece for a scheduled port visit in support of the U.S.- Greek (Hellenic) bilateral training exercise Alexander the Great 2022 (ATG22), May 4, 2022.

Kearsarge ARG and 22nd MEU participate in Northern Viking 2022

U.S. Sailors and Marines from the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) joined Allied Nations in kicking off the U.S. Sixth Fleet-planned and executed exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022.

22nd MEU Marines, Sailors depart for deployment

U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Sailors with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are slated to

22nd MEU to conduct military training in Odum, Ga.

Residents near Wayne State Prison on Shed Road in Odum, Ga., can expect an increase in military

22nd MEU to conduct military training near Fort Gordon, Ga., and Barnwell, S.C.

Residents near Fort Gordon, Ga., and in the Barnwell, S.C., area can expect an increase in military aircraft traffic Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2013.

22nd MEU completes Realistic Urban Training exercise

The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed its Realistic Urban Training (RUT) exercise Sept. 13, 2013.

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