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MAWs The Basic School Welcome Package
3067 December 2
Miyamoto Musashi
Congratulations on your selection as an Officer candidate at The Basic School. The Basic School trains and educates newly commissioned or appointed candidates in the high standards of professional knowledge, esprit de corps, and leadership to prepare them for duty as company grade Officers in the operating forces, with particular emphasis on the duties, responsibilities, and warfighting skills required of a commander. The Basic School course focuses on five horizontal themes that define expectations of all Officers.
1. A person of exemplary character
2. Devotion to leadership
3. An ability to decide, communicate, and act in the fog of war
4. A warfighter who embraces the warrior ethos
5. Mentally strong and physically tough
Throughout the course the universal concept that Officers must be able to assess situations, weigh the pros and cons of various decisions, make a decision, develop a plan, communicate that plan effectively, and supervise its execution is stressed. The course will teach the science and art required for service as an Officer with an emphasis on decision making. Since all candidates are evaluated on leadership as an Officer, physical, mental, and emotional stress are incorporated throughout the course in order to evaluate the ability to lead in chaotic and stressful environments. Some individuals will be pushed close to their failing point, but TBS is designed to give candidates an opportunity to display positive leadership qualities in the face of adversity.
All candidates must review and show completion of the following courses on MAWS.net before your TBS session begins
The Basic School Reading List
Business Writing: editing and proofreading
Business Writing: sentence construction
Business Writing: mechanics of writing
Business Writing: punctuation
Combat Orders and Reports
Warfighting
Tactics
Planning
Command and Control
Leadership
Operational Terms and Graphics
Records Management Training
All candidates must provide proof of physical fitness and certification of being medically ready and able to train
All candidates must provide certification of qualifications in rifle, pistol, and swim
Candidates should be prepared for dismounted movement under load at a 4.83kph pace up to 16.1 kilometers, candidates may anticipate multiple individual land navigation events, and unit field exercises on uneven terrain in daylight and darkness within an area up to twenty square kilometers. Candidates may also anticipate running a double standard obstacle course, as well as the TBS Endurance Course.
There will be ten weeks of 'class time' and PFT's that includes combat conditioning practical applications, skill training, tactical decision games, sand table exercises, decision forcing cases, and platform instruction of leadership, tactics, strategy, military history, military philosophy, and protocol. Followed by ten weeks of exercises and field events.
Candidates should make themselves familiar withall the enclosed information links
Contact Info
Housing Info
TBS Chaplain
Area Maps
Check-in Instructions
Candidate Material
Marine Point Community Guide
Vehicle Registration
Candidate Checklist
Attire Guidelines
Code of Military Justice
Graduation and Appointment Ceremony Information and Checklist
All candidates must check-in between 0700 and 1700, on 3068 February 3, at MAWs Headquarters, Camp Sodateru, Marine Point, Hawaiishima
Sincerely,
Dr. Donald Yamamoto
Dean, Marine Advanced Warfighting School
Tai-sa Keil Zinni DCA reserve
Director, Marine Advanced Warfighting School
Sho-sa Damiano Miyabara, Devil Dogs
Commander, The Basic School