Amphibious Combat Vehicle Platoon Commander Course

Amphibious Combat Vehicle Platoon Commander Course (ACV-PC) provides the students the foundational knowledge, skills and leadership qualities necessary to manage and employ their assigned Amphibious Assault (AA) platoon administratively, logistically and tactically. The course focuses on administrative concepts, Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) land operation, planning, tactical employment and gunnery, ACV water operation, and amphibious operations. Graduates of this course will be competent advisors to supported unit commanders conducting amphibious operations and/or mechanized operations ashore, while leading, equipping, and training their personnel and maintaining readiness of their assault amphibian unit.

• Ensure your training qualifications completed at TBS are reflected in MCTIMS and MOL prior to leaving TBS/OJT
• Ensure you bring all dress uniform items
• Check-in will be conducted in service dress uniform alpha
• Ensure you have appropriate orders on hand
• Prior to leaving TBS/OJT ensure all DTS is complete for students with TAD orders (Pacific Views is the primary lodging option)
• All students should be Water Survival Intermediate qualified prior to check-in

Review, and have a thorough understanding, of the below information ahead of checking in.

• Know the Five Paragraph Order structure and process in its entirety
  • Combat Order Foundations B2B0287
• Review the METT-TC planning process and understand how to apply critical thinking skills and conduct proper analysis in relation to scheme of maneuver development
  • Ref: Tactical Planning B2B2367 Student Handout
• Know military operational terms and graphics (Ref: MarineNet Channel The Basic School)
  • Ops Terms and Graphics #1
  • Ops Terms and Graphics #2
  • Operational Terms and Graphics Student Handout (TBS Student Handout)
• Know and understand the domains of the battlespace and how they tie together at the tactical level (Air, Land, Sea, Space, Cyberspace)
  • Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (Chapter 1)
• Review and understand the tactical tasks and their definitions
  • Tactical Tasks Handout
  • MCDP-1 (Appendix C)
• Understand machine gun employment
  • Machine Gun Employment B3N4478 Student Handout
• Review Rifle Platoon in the Offense (TBS Student Handout B3J0427XQ-DM)
• Review Rifle Platoon in the Defense (TBS Student Handout B3J3778)
• Terrain Analysis/Map skills
  • Using Terrain Models W270004

• Pre-Course:
  • Brief by Joseph McCormack
  • Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
  • Culture Code by Daneil Coyle
  • MCDP-1 Warfighting
  • MCDP-1.3 Tactics
  • MCDP-4 Logistics
• During Course:
  • Next War by John Antal
  • Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
  • Articles assigned by Course Advisor
• 1803 Community Recommended:
  • Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Col Joseph H. Alexander
  • Alligators, Buffaloes, and Bushmasters: The History of the Development of the LVT through World War I by Alfred D. Bailey
  • Gallipoli by Peter Hart
  • Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual by Jocko Willink
  • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele