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Marine Corps Detachment (MARDET) Newport

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Building 1112
1112 Kollmeyer St.
Telephone: 841-4094

Website: http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/newport2/index.html

    The Marine Corps mission aboard Naval Station Newport has changed many times since 1894 when the Marines first established a permanent tenant command in Newport. Today, Marine Corps Detachment, Training Command has the primary mission of training Marine Aviation Supply Officers and Marine ALTIS Specialists while providing administrative, logistical, and headquarters support to over 200 Marine instructors and students attached to naval training commands in the region.

    In 2010 the Marine presence doubled with the relocation of the Marine Aviation Logistics Schools from Athens, Georgia to the renovated Beirut Memorial Hall (named in honor of the nine Marines from RI killed in the 1983 bombing) on Codington Point. The Aviation Logistics Tactical Information Systems School conducts a 30 week accession level course where enlisted Marines earn the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of 6694. The course provides intensive training on hardware, software, networking, internetworking, and system administrator skills for the stand-alone information technology systems and assets critical to a Marine Aircraft Group in garrison and while deployed. The Aviation Supply School conducts a 15 week Aviation Supply Officer Basic Qualification Course to train Marine Officers and Warrant Officers in the skills necessary to lead, manage, plan, direct, and analyze the execution of aviation supply functions within the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron (MALS) Supply Department. Students learn Navy developed and sponsored aviation automated management systems, repairable and financial management programs, budgeting and accounting, inventory management and warehousing operations. The Aviation Supply School also conducts several one to three week continuing education courses for staff-non-commissioned-officers and commissioned officers working within Aviation Logistics.

    The new Beirut Memorial Hall is now the epicenter of support for the Marine Corps Training Command instructors and students in six Marine Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) pipelines (4402, 4421, 4422, 6602, 6604, and 6694) as well as the Marine Drill Instructors at Officer Training Command, Newport. In addition, the Marine Corps Detachment provides ancillary support for Marines in Newport attached to the Naval Academy Preparatory School, the Naval War College, and the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS), as well as Marines in Boston attached to the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), Boston University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.