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BGen Willie J. WilliamsAssistant Deputy
Commandant, Installations and Logistics
(Facilities)
Sustaining The ForceOptimizing Readiness
Through Pollution Prevention Joint Services
Environmental Management Conference 17 August 2004
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WARFIGHTING

• THE Marine Corps focus
• Current Operations
• Afghanistan - Operation Enduring Freedom
• Iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom
• (1/3 of USMC)
• Philippines Global War on Terrorism
• Horn of Africa
• Amphibious Ready Groups are forward deployed 365
• days a year

Be the most ready when the nation is the least
ready. House Armed Services Committee - 1952
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WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES

• Land, Sea, Air forces
• Achieved and sustained through training
• Training requires adequate
• Land space
• Sea space
• Air space

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MODERN BATTLEFIELD

• Highly technical and complex weapons systems
• Tanks, planes, ships, satellites
• Harmonized coordination
• Close air support, artillery, naval guns,
  mechanized
• maneuver
• RESULT - rapid, lethal, decisive effects that
• Defeat any enemy, anytime, anyplace
• Absolutely minimize friendly and
• non-combatant casualties
• Require large training areas.

Land, Sea and Air Forces WORKING TOGETHER
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BASES STATIONS

• Provide training
• areas
• Where working
• together is learned,
• practiced, and perfected for combat.
• Without installations, there is no readiness.

For this reason, our bases and stations
are CRITICAL READINESS ENABLERS
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Challenges to Maintaining Readiness

• Environmental restrictions and impacts
• Urban sprawl competition for land, air, sea use
• Critical habitat and endangered species
• designation
• Wilderness designation
• restrictions

Result SIGNIFICANT TRAINING IMPACTS
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Readiness Threatened
Cumulative effects of Environmental Restrictions
and Impacts, Encroachment, and Urbanization
Cause operational training restrictions that
Create less realistic training

• Degraded Combat Readiness

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An ORDERed Approach to Overcoming these
Challenges

• Operational Readiness Depends on Environmental
  Responsibility
• Requires
• Excellence in installation environmental mgmt
• Participation by
• All USMC installation, tenant, and operational
  commands
• All Headquarters Marine Corps advocates
• Navy and other DoD partners and tenants
• Strong support from all stakeholders provides
  excellence in training space management to our
  Warfighters

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USMC Effort

• Philosophical Evolution
• Risk to mission focus
• Continual improvement
• Environmental compliance
• as everyones responsibility
• Environmental staff as teachers
• Controlling risks to mission from potential
  environmental
• impacts of what we do requires awareness and
  training

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USMC Effort

• Environmental Management System (EMS)
• Systematic, coordinated approach to identifying,
  prioritizing, and controlling risks from
  potential environmental impacts, requires
• Shared vision working in partnership
• with all installation, tenant, and
• operational commands
• Leadership, communication, and
• coordination
• TRAINING!
• Systematic EM must be part of day-to-day
• decision making and planning processes

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USMC Effort

• EMS ACTIONS
• Build on existing Pollution
• Prevention Opportunity
• Assessments, et. al.
• Use P2 wherever possible
• to mitigate risks and meet
• installation goals
• Look for opportunities to
• mitigate risks through behavioral
• and management process changes
• TRAIN!

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An Evolving Vision

• P2 as tool of choice for mitigating risks to
  mission
• EMS as enabler for using P2 as tool of choice
  for
• mitigating risks to mission
• Stakeholders working together,
• understanding their shared responsibilities