Manpower and ReserveAffairs Department, HQMC
The Manpower and Reserve Affairs department is the largest department in Headquarters Marine Corps. Located in the James Wesley Marsh Center, Building 3280. M&RA is responsible for taking care of Marines and their families. Within the M&RA are the Manpower Management Information Systems Division, the Manpower Management Division, the Manpower Plans and Policy Division, the Personal and Family Readiness Division, and the Reserve Affairs Division. Certain elements of M&RA are located in Building 17 (Promotions Branch, MM Division), Building 2008 (Personnel Management Support Branch, MM Division), and Building 3044 (Business Operations Branch, MR Division).

Web site: www.manpower.usmc.mil.

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity was activated in November 1988. Located primarily at Quantico, MCIA is responsible for providing services that support: thecommandant of the Marine Corps and his staff; development of service-specific doctrine, force structure, force modernization, training and education, and acquisition policy and programming; and Marine forces contingency planning and other requirements for intelligence products.

MCIA is fully integrated into the Department of Defense Intelligence Production Program. Through this program, MCIA can be tasked to provide expeditionary warfare intelligencesupport to any national, theater, or operational command in the United States Armed Forces.

Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity
The Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity is tasked with supporting the Marine Corps acquisition process by conducting an Operational Test and Evaluation of all newequipment for the Corps.

Simply put, MCOTEA is responsible for ensuring all new equipment introduced into the Marine Corps team worksproperly, helping the Corps continue to be the elite fighting force it has always been. It is the goal to guarantee theequipment in the hands of each Marine is the best it can be through fair and objective operational test and evaluation. Every piece of gear, from the boots on Marine’s feet and the weapons in their hands, to complicated radar equipment, is evaluated to ensure it is both operationally effective and operationally suitable. The end result is a piece of gear that works like it is supposed to, when it is supposed–to in combat.

MCOTEA conducts an OT&E only when a system is certified safe and ready for testing. This assures the safety of the Marines on the test team and makes sure the equipment is truly ready to be subjected to the rigors of an operational test. There are two instances in which a piece of gear is tested: prior to production, called an Initial OT&E, and after fielding, called a Follow-On OT&E.

Equipment is tested by Marine forces Marines in specially-designed operational scenarios as close to actual combatsituations as possible. Many times, gear is tested in severaldifferent environments to ensure its suitability, includingtemperate, desert, jungle and arctic terrain. Tests are based on the requirements and mission profile of the gear.

Marines for the test are selected based upon their MOS, their experience in that field or with similar equipment, and the assets their unit has to support the test. Their experience and feedback during the test process provides the basis for the equipment's success or failure. It is usually individual Marines who identify a need to be met which leads to a piece of gear being researched for acquisition. In turn, it is individual Marines providing qualitative opinions on the Marine Corps' answer to a need, which will judge the combat effectiveness of that same piece of gear before it goes to the Marine Forces. All tests strive to keep in mind whom the gear is for: the individualwarriors of the Marine forces.

Web site: www.quantico.usmc.mil⁄mcotea⁄default.asp.

Marine Security Guard Battalion
Marine Security Guard Battalion is in Building 2007. Selected Marines assigned to the battalion are trained at the Marine Security Guard School and processed for duty overseas under the operational control of the Department of State as Marine security guards. These Marines serve at 142 embassies and consulates around the world.

The Marine Security Guard Battalion also coordinates the personnel, logistics and training of these Marines worldwide.

Web site: www.msgbn.usmc.mil⁄.

Marine Corps Systems Command
The mission of Marine Corps Systems Command is to serve as the commandant’s principal agent for equipping the operating forces to accomplish their warfighting mission. Systems Command is the recognized leader in equipping the Marine warfighter to win, by providing quality systems and equipment to the operating forces. The command manages systems and equipment during their entire life cycle and employs highly effective, streamlined and innovative business processes.

As MCCDC provides a validated mission need and operational requirement, MARCORSYSCOM acquires the required weapon systems. Program managers, reporting ultimately to the assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, serve as the focal point for acquiring weapons systems. In order to ensure weapons systems providemaximum capability at minimum cost and are fielded in theminimum amount of time, PM’s place significant emphasis on acquiring non-developmental items and entering jointdevelopment efforts with other services. Web site:www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil.

Marine Corps Recruiting Command
The Marine Corps Recruiting Command headquarters is located in the Marsh Center (Bldg. 3280). MCRC conducts operations to recruit qualified individuals for enlistment orcommissioning into the United States Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve in order to attain its assigned Total Forcepersonnel requirements by component and category, inaccordance with the applicable fiscal year Marine Corps Accession Strategy, the Military Personnel Procurement Manual, and as directed by the commandant of the Marine Corps.

Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Command
The Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Command is the Corps’ enterprise network operations center and serves as the Marine component to U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations. The MCNOSC mission is to provide global network operations and computer network defense in order to facilitate seamless information exchange in support of Marine and joint forces operating worldwide. MCNOSC is the Corps’ nucleus for enterprise data network services, network support to deploying forces, and technical development of network-enabled IT solutions.

The MCNOSC is responsible for operations involving all aspects of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network. The MCEN provides the Corps with classified and unclassified connectivity to DoD networking and mainframe services essential toaccomplishing every day desktop computing tasks. From the MCNOSC Command Center, personnel monitor MCENoperations around the clock through an array of strategically positioned sensors to ensure the availability and security of the network. The commanding officer of MCNOSC is responsible for directing daily operations to accomplish the Joint Task Force, for Computer Network Operations assigned mission of defending the MCEN against cyber attack. This includespreventative actions, attack detection, and incident response to the rapidly increasing number of threats to Marine Corps use of cyberspace.

Web site: www.mcnosc.usmc.mil.

Marine Corps Air Facility
The Marine Corps Air Facility traces a long history of aviation service to Quantico and the Marine Corps as the first Marine Corps Air Station dating back to 1918. Since October 1992, MCAF has belonged to commander, Marine Corps Air Bases East, headquartered at MCAS Cherry Point, N.C.

Today, under direction, MCAF provides support to Marine Helicopter Squadron One, service to the fleet, and hospitality for important events such as the Modern Day Marine Corps Exposition, Congressional Marine Day, and the Joint Staff’s Force Protection Equipment Demonstration.

Marine Helicopter Squadron One
Marine Helicopter Squadron One was established in 1947 at Quantico to pioneer an entirely new concept in air operations: to evaluate and test in coordination with the Landing Force Development Center the theory of transporting Marines to a battle zone by helicopter. From this early mission, the Operational Test and Evaluation Department of HMX-1 has evolved into the operational test activity for new helicopter systems and products destined for the Fleet Marine Force. HMX-1 flies the CH-46E, CH-53E, the VH-60 and the VH-3 helicopters in support of its mission. HQMC also tasks HMX-1 with providing helicopter lift support to MCCDC schools and various VIP’s in the Washington area. The most visible mission HMX-1 performs is presidential support.

Web site: www.hmx-1.usmc.mil

Company D, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Company D, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is located at Camp Upshur, Quantico. The mission of the company is to conduct security and route reconnaissance missions in support of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The unit consists of approximately 136 enlisted Reserve Marines and five reserve Marine officers with medical support provided by 10 reserve Navy corpsmen. The unit maintains six variants of the Light Armored Vehicle, the primary vehicle being the LAV-25.

The company is supported by the active duty Inspector-Instructor staff consisting of Marines and sailors and supports the local community by getting actively involved with the Drug Awareness Rehabilitation Education program, annual Toys for Tots campaign, and recruiting effort for the Marine Corps

Web site: www.mfr.usmc.mil.

USMC Non-appropriated Fund Audit Service Northeast Region
The Marine Corps Non-appropriated Fund Audit Service, Northeast Region, is located in Building 3099.

The mission of MCNAFAS is to provide the commandant of the Marine Corps, commanding general⁄officer, staff agencies, and non-appropriated fund managers with independent,objective and constructive appraisals of the management, accounting, operations, and related functions of theirnon-appropriated fund activities.

MCNAFAS Auditors are selected by interview from othermilitary occupational specialties throughout the Marine Corps.

The Northeast regional office is responsible for providing audit services to all NAF activities located at Quantico, Henderson Hall, HQMC, and Marine Barracks clubs and recreation funds located in Kansas, Missouri, New York, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., and Europe. Web site: www2.hqmc.usmc.mil⁄pr⁄mcnafas. nsf.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the primarycriminal investigative and counterintelligence agency worldwide for the Department of the Navy. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducts all investigations of felonies that occur on base or are base related.

In an age of rapidly advancing technology, the protection of classified naval information from unauthorized disclosure is vital to national security, as is the safeguarding of naval material from damage or destruction.

The role of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in this regard is a dual one: to assist the Navy and Marine Corps inprotecting their assets and to apprehend those who would allow them to be compromised.

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
In 1997, the Department of Defense, pursuant to public law and congressional intent, created the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate. The commandant of the Marine Corps was designated as the DoD executive agent, and the Marine Corps-led joint activity is located in Building 3097. Thedirectorate, manned by representatives from all the armed services, plus the U.S. Coast Guard, manages the day-to-day functions of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Thedirectorate provides program management oversight;develops and recommends fully integrated and coordinated joint programs; provides the most current and accurateinformation available; and reviews the best non-lethal weapons technologies and equipment to support the operating forces of all the services.

Web site: www.jnlwd.usmc.mil.

FBI Academy
Located on Russell Road west of Interstate 95, the FBI Academy consists of the main facility, Hogan’s Alley Complex and weapons ranges. The main complex has more than 900 resident students, a conference center, classroom building, library, auditorium, Forensic Science Research and Training Center, gymnasium, dining room facility, Marine Corps exchange store, and its own United States post office.

The number one training priority at the FBI Academy is the training of FBI special agents and support personnel. The newly appointed Special Agent Training Program is 16 weeks long.

Executive-level courses, the National Executive Institute and the Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, are also part of the state and local training program. The National Academy Program and the executive programs are accredited through the University of Virginia. Web site: www.fbi.gov.

Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Training has been located at Quantico since 1985. Both the domestic training and the international training sections are located at the DEA Training Academy in the FBI Academy complex. The DEA Clandestine Laboratory Unit is located at Camp Upshur.

The office of training formulates and administers DEA policy pertaining to domestic and international training needs in drug law enforcement.

The office of training’s international training section consists of three teams of instructors whose mission is to travel around the world providing drug law enforcement training to DEA’sforeign law enforcement counterparts.

Marine Corps Association
The Marine Corps Association is located in Building 715, near the Town of Quantico.

The association publishes the Marine Corps Gazette and Leatherneck, and sponsors an extensive awards program, which recognizes high professional achievement throughout the Corps’ schools and professional courses of instruction.

The MCA operates a walk-in and mail order book service. It also markets professional items of interest such as posters, uniform prints, Marine Corps and national flags, and calling cards. Birthday ball supplies and Marine Corps memorabilia are also available. For additional information pertaining to the MCA, visit Web site: http:⁄⁄mca-marines.org.

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
Established in 1979, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Marine Corps history andtraditions. It directly supports the historical programs of the Marine Corps in ways that might not otherwise be available through government funds.

The foundation is currently supporting the creation of the future Marine Corps Heritage Center at Quantico.