S.Amdt. 5492

1. Adds SEC. 556. SENSE OF SENATE ON MARINE CORPS PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION at the end of subtitle D of title V

   Adds a section

   In S. 3001 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   "2016. Service academies: payment of costs of foreign visitors for international cooperation; expenses of cadets and midshipmen in certain travel or study abroad.".

   Inserted: SEC. 556. SENSE OF SENATE ON MARINE CORPS PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:

   Inserted: (1) The Marine Corps University of the United States Marine Corps was established in 1989 by the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Alfred Gray USMC (ret.), with the mission to develop, deliver, and evaluate professional military education and training through resident and distance education programs to prepare leaders to meet the challenges of national security \and to preserve, promote, and display the history and heritage of the Marine Corps.

   Inserted: (2) The United States Marine Corps Professional Military Education System educates members of the United States Marine Corps, the United States Army, the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the United States Coast Guard, civilian employees of the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense civilians, and military officers of foreign countries.

   Inserted: (3) The national security of the United States depends upon Marines who are educated in a military education system that produces creative, adaptable, and critical who thinkers able to meet the challenges of warfare in the 21st century.

   Inserted: (4) The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps' Planning Guidance directed the President of the Marine Corps University to assess the health of the professional military education programs of the Marine Corps for both officers and enlisted members and make recommendations for the reorganization, resourcing, and adjustment of the number of students enrolled in such programs.

   Inserted: (5) In 2006, the Marine Corps University conducted a study under the leadership of General Charles Wilhelm USMC (ret.), to assess the health of the United States Marine Corps Officer Professional Military Education Program. This study concluded that the Officer Professional Military Education System was generally sound. However, without investment in facilities and information technology infrastructure, the system will be increasingly unable to meet the needs of Marine Corps officers, the Marine Corps generally, and the Nation.

   Inserted: (6) The Marine Corps has developed a comprehensive plan that will address the inadequate information technology infrastructure and the inadequate facilities with a realistic military construction effort that will include the construction of the new Academic Support Instructional Facility for professional military education programs for both officers and enlisted members.

   Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the United States Marine Corps is to be congratulated for--

   Inserted: (1) remarkable achievement in providing creative, adaptive, and critical thinkers able to meet the challenges of warfare in the 21st center and the defense of the United States;

   Inserted: (2) conducting an in-depth, institutionally honest assessment of the United States Marine Corps Professional Military Education System; and

   Inserted: (3) pursuing the noble goal of creating a worldwide, world-class professional military education institution.

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle D of title V, add the following:

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