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A Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps

The 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert B. Neller, refined and expanded on the 36th Commandant’s Planning Guidance. The fragmentation order was released on Jan. 19, 2016 to clarify the Marine Corps’ goals and how to reach them over the next four years.

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Guidance for Fiscal Year 2016 Community Outreach Events

NEW ORLEANS - Marine Administrative Message 643/15 provides guidance to commanders for conducting community outreach events in fiscal year 2016 to ensure consistency in execution across the Marine Corps. The intent is to emphasize support to local events that occur at no-cost to the government and focus authorized expenditures primarily on areas not normally reached.

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Cpl. Lance Decker, an administrative clerk with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve, holds the Headquarters Bn. guidon before the start of a military appearance inspection at the Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, Oct. 11, 2013. Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills, commander of MARFORRES and Marine Forces North published a force policy letter to be implemented by his Marines without delay, addressing the commandant's initiatives to get back to the basics. - Cpl. Lance Decker, an administrative clerk with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve, holds the Headquarters Bn. guidon before the start of a military appearance inspection at the Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, Oct. 11, 2013. Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills, commander of MARFORRES and Marine Forces North published a force policy letter to be implemented by his Marines without delay, addressing the commandant's initiatives to get back to the basics.

Back to basics: commander MARFORRES provides intent for Marines within command

“After a decade of war we have an opportunity to ‘reset’ our Corps... A refocus on our ethos and values… a refocus on who we are and what we do,” said Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps. Amos delivered this statement to the Corps’ senior officers during the General Officer Symposium at Quantico, Va., Sept. 23, 2013. His senior

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