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From the Director

MCCLL “Quick Look” Reports One of the main categories of products developed by the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL) to help disseminate information rapidly to decision makers and Marine operating forces is a concise, quick turnaround report, referred to as a “Quick Look” Report. The MCCLL Senior Analysts develop these reports rapidly, sometimes in response to specific requests from data that has already been collected. If additional insight is desired, the Quick Look report can be expanded into a more comprehensive and longer topical paper.

This edition of our monthly newsletter highlights a series of Quick Look reports that MCCLL has published within the past two months. Many of these reports are based on recent focused collection efforts conducted with specific organizations. Six of the reports resulted from an extensive data collection effort headed by our Collections and Analysis Branch Head, LtCol Mark Silvia, that was conducted in Iraq earlier this summer, while another report is based on a collection effort that Mr. James Burke, the MCCLL representative to 29 Palms, performed with the intelligence section of the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, in September. Although these Quick Look reports are not able to address any particular topic in depth, they focus on a few key points that reinforce or counter issues that have been raised.

Later in this newsletter, we feature a topical paper on communication battalion operations based on the deployment of the 8th Communication Battalion in OIF 04-06. This is an example of a report that was initially a Quick Look report that has now been expanded into a topical paper. The final Quick Look report is an example of a report prepared in response to a specific query, in this case a request from the 2d Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) for recent examples of positive news and how lessons learned are being used to improve training and readiness for the Long War. MCCLL Senior Analysts prepared a Quick Look report with several attachments to address this issue.

We hope that one or more of these reports falls into one of your own areas of interest.

Featured Articles

  • MCCLL “Quick Look” Reports
  • Intelligence Enhancements, 2d Bn, 7th Marines
  • A Marine Company-Level Intelligence Cell
  • METOC Community of Interest
  • OIF 05-07 “Quick Looks”
    • Regional Reconstruction Operations Center
    • Tank Company Operations
    • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron
    • Reconnaissance Battalion
    • Force Reconnaissance Co
    • Engineer Support Battalion
  • Iraqi Successes
  • Communications Battalion Operations