08/29/2025
28 students graduated from the Naval Expeditionary Operations Planners Course (NEOPC) hosted by a Mobile Training Team (MTT) from Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic (EWTGLANT) at Camp Hansen, Okinawa. NEOPC highlights future dynamic environments that amphibious and expeditionary forces will operate within, while applying mutually supporting Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint Capabilities as solutions to Navy and Marine Corps concepts. Over the course of four days, students were taught to understand, analyze, and plan future operating concepts that facilitate naval operations with emphasis on Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO, Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operation (EABO). This training is critical for naval integration, education, and certification in support of Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR) activation, Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluations (MCCRE), and other fleet training events.
“Force Design 2030 demands that our Marines operate effectively in the maritime domain alongside our Navy and Joint partners” says Major Stephan Bristow, Course Manager for NEOPC. “NEOPC provides the essential training that equips Marine staffs with the knowledge and skills to become naval-capable warfighters, ensuring we can execute distributed operations across the vast distances of the Indo-Pacific theater.”
“The Amphibious Warfare Department’s delivery of the NEOPC POI to forward deployed units like the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment represents the dedication our instructors bring to the table every day onboard EWTGLANT” says Commander Jonathan Paiz, the Amphibious Warfare Department Head. “Our Sailors, Marines, and civilian faculty are truly dedicated to improving fleet lethality, capability, and integration supported by up-to-date knowledge to meet the demands newly formed tactical units and operational staffs have in deterring and countering peer competitor malign activities. It is small, yet impactful, events like this that allow our Expeditionary Forces at the tip of the spear to maintain the competitive edge over potential future adversaries.”
Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Atlantic conducts world-class expeditionary warrior training and instruction in the doctrine, tactics and techniques of naval expeditionary warfare with a focus on amphibious operations, in order to support operational commanders in maintaining forces ready to project military power from the sea.
