✅✅
Identify directive type - -MC bulletin- expires 12 months, does not express
continuing authority.
NAVMC- a method or plan of action for carrying out policy. Provides
recommendations for operating and assigning responsibilities
ALMAR- released from CMC, serves as personal communication from CMC to all
Marine Coprs orders -
MarAdmin- a way for HQMC to disseminate routine info/message traffic to all.
Types of correspondence - ✅✅ -Stand letter- military/DOD style business letter
Endorsements- letter to forward comments, recommendations, or info. usually from
those listed on the "VIA" line
Memorandums - informal correspondence within an activity or between units
Business letter - to correspond with agencies outside the DOD
Position/point/talking papers - staff action document that an action officer prepares.
recommends point of view, key points, facts, takes position.
Email - informal communications, does not replace face to face or a phone call
AA forms(Admin Action) - Standardizes certain routine actions
Directives - MCO, MCBUL, MARADMIN, ALMAR, NAVMC
SSIC - ✅✅ -1000-1999 Military Personnel
2000-2999 Telecommunications
3000-3999 Ops and Readiness
4000-4999 Logistics
5000-5999 General Admin
6000-6999 Medicine/dentistry
7000-7999 Financial Management
8000-8999 Ordnance Material
9000-11999 General Material
12000-12999 Civilian Personnel
13000-13999 Aeronautical and Astronautical Material
Small Unit Leader decision competancies - ✅✅ -Personality related: Self sufficient,
resilient, open to change, motivated by achievement, tolerant ambiguity, willing to
learn
Cognitive: cognitive ability, problem solver
Interpersonal: communicates well, awareness of self and others
Domain specific: knowledge of material, experience of material
two types of decision making - ✅✅ -recognition-primed: frequently occurs
subconsciously. Formed quickly from experience and intuition. based on pattern
recognition. The more training/experience to foster pattern recognition the quicker
decisions can come
, Analytical: Comprehensive and accurate. a detail analysis of the situation, typically
leads to more informed decisions and actions. takes time and deliberate analysis.
The steps of the OODA cycle - ✅✅ -Observe: the sum of all the raw data from
sensory inputs and data from the environment that flow to the decision maker.
Effective through constant awareness.
Orient: decisive step, analytical/recognition-primed processing of what has been
observed, weighed against experience and training, moving towards a decision.
Decide: ability to quickly arrive at a decision from the combination of observe and
orient. quickly enough to generate an advantage in time against the enemy.(70%
solution)
Act: A leader translating that decision into Action.
Clearance levels and classifications - ✅✅ -Clearance- Administrative determination
by designated authority that an individual is eligible for access
Top secret - (5yrs) can cause exceptional damage to national security
Secret - (10yrs) can cause serious damage to national security
Confidential- (15yrs) can cause identifiable damage
Unclassified - does not fall into the other categories
FOUO - For offical use only - used to identify unclassified portions containing info
exempt from mandatory public release.
Classified Information Spillage( Immediate Action) - ✅✅
-1. Secure area/personnel
2. Report immediately to chain of command/security manager
3. Initiate communication stoppage
4. Revoke security clearances and investigate
5 stresses of combat - ✅✅ -1. Boredom: short periods of terror are followed by long
periods of inactivity.
2. Fog of war: Confusion, friction, the unknown, uncertainty
3. Casualties: Regardless if a leader does everything right Marines can still get hurt
or killed
4. Discomfort and Fatigue: combat causes dreadful conditions; lock of food, sleep
deprivation, and the impact of the elements/environment
5. Extreme risk and fear:
Types of bleeding - ✅✅ -Arterial - flow of bright red blood that pumps out in distinct
spurts. Can be alarmingly profuse. not like to clot. CAN CAUSE THE VICTIM TO
Identify directive type - -MC bulletin- expires 12 months, does not express
continuing authority.
NAVMC- a method or plan of action for carrying out policy. Provides
recommendations for operating and assigning responsibilities
ALMAR- released from CMC, serves as personal communication from CMC to all
Marine Coprs orders -
MarAdmin- a way for HQMC to disseminate routine info/message traffic to all.
Types of correspondence - ✅✅ -Stand letter- military/DOD style business letter
Endorsements- letter to forward comments, recommendations, or info. usually from
those listed on the "VIA" line
Memorandums - informal correspondence within an activity or between units
Business letter - to correspond with agencies outside the DOD
Position/point/talking papers - staff action document that an action officer prepares.
recommends point of view, key points, facts, takes position.
Email - informal communications, does not replace face to face or a phone call
AA forms(Admin Action) - Standardizes certain routine actions
Directives - MCO, MCBUL, MARADMIN, ALMAR, NAVMC
SSIC - ✅✅ -1000-1999 Military Personnel
2000-2999 Telecommunications
3000-3999 Ops and Readiness
4000-4999 Logistics
5000-5999 General Admin
6000-6999 Medicine/dentistry
7000-7999 Financial Management
8000-8999 Ordnance Material
9000-11999 General Material
12000-12999 Civilian Personnel
13000-13999 Aeronautical and Astronautical Material
Small Unit Leader decision competancies - ✅✅ -Personality related: Self sufficient,
resilient, open to change, motivated by achievement, tolerant ambiguity, willing to
learn
Cognitive: cognitive ability, problem solver
Interpersonal: communicates well, awareness of self and others
Domain specific: knowledge of material, experience of material
two types of decision making - ✅✅ -recognition-primed: frequently occurs
subconsciously. Formed quickly from experience and intuition. based on pattern
recognition. The more training/experience to foster pattern recognition the quicker
decisions can come
, Analytical: Comprehensive and accurate. a detail analysis of the situation, typically
leads to more informed decisions and actions. takes time and deliberate analysis.
The steps of the OODA cycle - ✅✅ -Observe: the sum of all the raw data from
sensory inputs and data from the environment that flow to the decision maker.
Effective through constant awareness.
Orient: decisive step, analytical/recognition-primed processing of what has been
observed, weighed against experience and training, moving towards a decision.
Decide: ability to quickly arrive at a decision from the combination of observe and
orient. quickly enough to generate an advantage in time against the enemy.(70%
solution)
Act: A leader translating that decision into Action.
Clearance levels and classifications - ✅✅ -Clearance- Administrative determination
by designated authority that an individual is eligible for access
Top secret - (5yrs) can cause exceptional damage to national security
Secret - (10yrs) can cause serious damage to national security
Confidential- (15yrs) can cause identifiable damage
Unclassified - does not fall into the other categories
FOUO - For offical use only - used to identify unclassified portions containing info
exempt from mandatory public release.
Classified Information Spillage( Immediate Action) - ✅✅
-1. Secure area/personnel
2. Report immediately to chain of command/security manager
3. Initiate communication stoppage
4. Revoke security clearances and investigate
5 stresses of combat - ✅✅ -1. Boredom: short periods of terror are followed by long
periods of inactivity.
2. Fog of war: Confusion, friction, the unknown, uncertainty
3. Casualties: Regardless if a leader does everything right Marines can still get hurt
or killed
4. Discomfort and Fatigue: combat causes dreadful conditions; lock of food, sleep
deprivation, and the impact of the elements/environment
5. Extreme risk and fear:
Types of bleeding - ✅✅ -Arterial - flow of bright red blood that pumps out in distinct
spurts. Can be alarmingly profuse. not like to clot. CAN CAUSE THE VICTIM TO
