First IMC Marines graduate, SOI prepares for future iterations

Credit: Courtesy | Date Taken: 04/30/2021
U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, graduated from the first Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 30, 2021. As the first course closes, SOI staff are preparing for the next iteration later this year. IMC was a 14-week pilot course designed to create better trained and more lethal entry-level infantry Marines prepared for near-peer conflicts. The course used a redesigned learning model for students intended to develop their capabilities for independent and adaptive thought and action. The program of instruction for IMC had been in development for a year and followed guidance from the 2019 Commandant's Planning Guidance and Force Design 2030. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Daniel Medina)