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| - The Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL) is a TECOM directorate and the USMC center of excellence for operational culture and language familiarization. CAOCL is tasked with ensuring that Marines are regionally focused, globally prepared, and effective at navigating and influencing culturally complex 21st-century operating environments. CAOCL provides operationally relevant products and services and accomplishes its mission by ensuring a comprehensive response to the Corps’ needs through various means. Seven Things To Know About the USMC’s Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning ________________________________________ CAOCL training has a huge impact on Marines’ success, regardless of mission type. What exactly does CAOCL do for the US Marine Corps? 1. Since its inception in 2006, CAOCL provides Marines and the Marine Corps with operationally relevant regional, culture, and language familiarization capabilities across the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) combat development pillars; and allows Marines to plan and operate successfully in the culturally complex, joint and combined expeditionary environment of the 21st century, while meeting existing and emerging needs in support of national security objectives. 2. CAOCL’s capabilities support Marine Component Commands and Combatant Commands: • Develops and maintains the Regional, Culture and Language Familiarization (RCLF) Program for all career Marines. • Conducts pre-deployment operational culture and language familiarization training for units deploying worldwide. • Provides Cultural Advisor (CULAD) support for specific operations and exercises. • Develops and maintains training and education standards. 3. CAOCL’s five primary core functions which support the general purpose force’s execution of missions spanning the range of military operations: • Develops and integrates capabilities associated with operational culture and language familiarization in the force; • Develops and maintains training and education standards; • Develops and maintains program(s); • Provides training and education; • Provides operational support. These functions include the application of the following knowledge/skill areas: • Culture-general, • Culture-specific, • Regional familiarization, • Language familiarization. 4. The Regional, Culture, and Language Familiarization Program (RCLF), • RCLF is a career-long distance education program that instills, develops and sustains a basic culture and language capability in all career Marines, through the study of one of 17 global regions. 5. CAOCL provides CULADs in support of exercises and deployed Operating Forces: • Cultural Advisors’ primary purpose is to provide commanders with a vetted cultural subject matter expert to assist in operational planning and to access reach-back support. They also provide in-theater refresher training to our forward deployed units to assist in sustaining critical culture and language skills. 6. CAOCL provides a translational research capability that focuses on social science applications to support Marine Corps initiatives. 7. CAOCL produces and publishes field guides, tactical language reference cards, and other training material for the Marine Corps’ general purpose force. For more information on CAOCL, please visit
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