Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Planning Specialist

“Work at the highest levels of Marine Corps operational planning, integrating all elements of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. MAGTF planners are the intellectual warriors who translate commander's intent into executable operations across air, ground, and logistics.”

This is a senior MOS. You will not arrive here from boot camp — you will arrive here after years of operational experience in another MOS, a selection process, and MAGTF Staff Training Program schooling that exists to teach you how to think in four dimensions simultaneously. The planning process is the Marine Corps Planning Process, and you will internalize it until it becomes reflexive. What you will discover is that the most sophisticated operational plan in the world encounters reality approximately twelve hours after execution begins and requires continuous revision by people who are tired, stressed, and working from incomplete information. Your job is to be the person in the COC who can hold the whole picture in their head while everyone else is focused on their lane. The intellectual demand is genuine. The hours are brutal. The colonels will take credit for the plan. This is known and accepted.