Marine Corps Training and Education Command

Marine Corps Training and Education Command
Seal of the United States Marine Corps Training and Education Command
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Marine Corps
Type	Supporting command
Role	Training and education
Part of	Headquarters Marine Corps
Garrison/HQ	MCB Quantico, Virginia, U.S.
Nickname(s)	TECOM
Motto(s)	"Today's student, tomorrow's leader!"
Commanders
Current commander	MajGen James W. Lukeman, USMC

The Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) is the primary training command of the United States Marine Corps

It develops, coordinate, resource, execute, and evaluate training and education concepts, policies, plans, and programs for Marines to meet the challenges of operational environments.

There are two major commands that fall under TECOM – the Education Command and the Training Command.

Training command has control over all of the training throughout the Marine Corps, including Recruit Training, Officer Candidate School and the various formal schools that train Marines throughout the world.

Some of the major units within Training Command are:

Education Command governs all of the training plans and policies that are instituted Corps-wide. This includes the Marine Corps Institute (MCI) courses and the Command and Staff College.

Some of the major units within Education Command are:

TECOM supervises a number of semi-autonomous commands that provide training and education to units throughout the Marine Corps.

(EMV) in support of Marine Corps units aboard MAGTFTC Twentynine Palms, California. (Effective 1 Oct 2012, Enhanced Mojave Viper is renamed Integrated Training Exercise or "ITX" (E-ITX for the Enhanced exercise) due to changes in funding, and changes in the future role of Marine Corps combat forces as the drawdown from Operation Enduring Freedom continues.)