Tactical Training Specialist

The Tactical Training Specialist (TTS) supports the Training Support Center (TSC) by assisting in the design and execution of unit-led Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training events and exercises for Fleet Marine Force (FMF) units at home station. The TTS collaborates with the prime contractor and TSC Government staff across three primary task areas:
Training Support, Site Operations Support, and Coordination. In the Training Support role, the TTS contributes to both the design of exercise scenarios, planning products, and control/evaluation documents, and the execution of those events — assisting Tactical Exercise Controllers, managing game path flow, and supporting After Action Reviews. In the Site Operations Support role, the TTS advises FMF units on long-range training plan development, tracks unit deployment cycles and LVC resource integration, and supports TSC site administrative and logistical functions.

In the Coordination role, the TTS serves as a single point of contact for unit LVC training requests, processing and tracking requests through resolution using the Range Facility Management Support System (RFMSS). All work is performed IAW the Performance Work Statement (PWS) and the USMC Systems Approach to Training (SAT).

Responsibilities/Duty:

• Training Support:
  • Design Support:
    • Provide comprehensive event and exercise design support, creating contextually relevant, LVC-integrated scenarios aligned with unit training goals and objectives, adhering to the USMC Systems Approach to Training (SAT).
    • Participate in unit planning milestones and deliver design information in agreed-upon formats (documents, electronic media, or data files).
    • Comply with MCRP 7-20A.2 and SOPs, and utilizing existing or creating new templates; collaborate with the prime contractor on approved templated design documents throughout all phases of the design process.
    • Generate the design concept (key scenario events) and support concept (timelines, roles, and resource integration), by coordinating with Battle Simulation Centers and LVC training exercise experts to ensure synchronization.
    • Construct scenarios that define the operational environment (OE) and establish initial training conditions, delivering the scenario to the unit prior to execution to support planning. Scenarios must be approved by the TSC Government representative within 48 hours of the Mid/Main Planning Conference (maximum two review cycles, with potential In-Progress Reviews); new OEs require approval within 8 months (four review cycles), and existing OEs receive periodic updates presented annually (four review cycles).
    • Develop doctrinally sound planning products (documents, graphics, briefs) to support deliberate and rapid planning actions, approved within the established support timeline (maximum two Government review cycles).
    • Develop exercise control documents outlining roles, responsibilities, and methods for managing event flow and measuring training audience performance, approved within the detailed planning timeline (maximum two Government review cycles).
    • Develop evaluation documents, including Training & Readiness checklists and presentations, to support the exercise evaluation team; ensure evaluation plans are approved no later than 48 hours prior to the Commander’s Confirmation Brief (CCB), allowing a maximum of two review cycles.
    • Support the modeling and simulation team to ensure all scenario and control data is available for ingest into simulation and control workstations.
    • Facilitate initial design conditions by confirming TSC Government acceptance of all planning, control, and evaluation products within 24 hours of the CCB, and ensure data is available in time to meet established exercise start timelines.
• Execution Support:
  • Support…