Marine Corps History Division Executive Overview

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Marine Corps History DivisionExecutive Overview

• Dr. Charles P. Neimeyer
• Director
• 19 October 2007

Presented to the National Marine Corps Council
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Executive Overview

• Origin of History Division (HD)
• Organizational Change Relocation
• Dedication of the NMMC
• Structure Staffing
• Strategic Focus Primary Customers
• Publications 2007, 2008, 2009
• Current Initiatives

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Origin of History Division

• Genesis Sept 1919, MCO No 53, Commandant
  Barnett directed the creation of an Historical
  Section
• Adding flesh and blood to official reports
• WWII - Okinawa Combat Historical Officers sent
  forward
• Korean War 1st Provisional Historical Platoon
  individual unit historians
• Vietnam Individual unit historians, 1 million
  pages of monthly command chronologies, and
  post-deployment interviews conducted by MCBs
• Desert Storm Field historians deployed
• OEF/OIF 25 field historians deployed since 9/11
  resulting in approximately 6000 oral history
  interviews

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Organizational Change Relocation

• Before Aug 2005 Located at Washington Navy Yard
  under HQMC command group included Archives and
  Museums
• Current Relocated at MCB Quantico, Virginia
  under Marine Corps University, Training and
  Education Command Structure Archives and
  National Museum of the Marine Corps split into
  separate operations
• Revised Marine Corps Historical Program (MCO
  P5750)
• Future Dedicated BGen Edwin Simmons History
  Center planned as addition to Gray Research
  Center

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Dedication of the National Museum of the Marine
Corps
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ORGANIZATONAL STRUCTURE
DIRECTOR Dr. Neimeyer
FIELD HISTORY BRANCH Reservists Col Steve Evans
EXECUTIVE ADMIN MGySgt Yarnall GySgt
Coachman Ms. Riffe
DEPUTY DIRECTOR Col Pat Saint
CHEIF HISTORIAN Mr. Chuck Melson
HISTORIES BRANCH Mr. Smith
HISTORICAL REF BRANCH Mr. Crawford
ORAL HISTORY BRANCH Dr. Allison
EDIT DESIGN BRANCH Maj Jackson
Writing Projects Historian Writers
Historical Interviews Collection Historians
Reference Services HQMC Programs Historians
MCU Press MCU Historical Imprints Editors/Grap
hic Artists
1 Oct-07
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Staffing Key Personnel18 Civilians / 12
Reservists

• Director Dr. Charles Neimeyer
• 703-432-4878
  charles.neimeyer
• Deputy Director Col. Patricia Saint, USMCR
• 703-432-4711 patricia.saint_at_usmc.mil
• Chief Historian Mr. Charles Melson
• 703-432-4882 charles.d.melson_at_usmc.mil
• Histories Branch Mr. Rich Smith
• 703-432-4884 charles.r.smith9_at_usmc.mil
• Historical Ref. Branch Mr. Danny Crawford
• 703-432-4871 danny.j.crawford
• Oral History Branch Dr. Fred Allison
• 703-432-4887 fred.allison_at_usmc.mil
• Edit Design Branch Maj Valeria Jackson
• 703-432-5224 valerie.a.jackson_at_usmc.mil

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Strategic Focus

• Vision
• Satisfy HD target customers and provide
  mixed-media historical products
• Mission
• Research, write, and publish the Marine Corps
  official history by
• responding to internal and external research
  requests
• providing historical reference assistance for
  writers and related projects
• documenting historical events
• conducting oral history interviews
• preparing manuscripts, articles, and papers for
  publication
• deploying field historians
• printing and promoting historical publications
• anthologies, definitive histories, monographs,
  battle studies, and occasional papers

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Primary Target Customers

• Headquarters Marine Corps
• Marine Corps University
• Marine Corps Community
• Commands
• Veterans Associations
• Families
• Fellow Military Services
• Government Agencies
• General Public

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Publications - 2007

• US Marines in Iraq, 2003 Anthology
• Small Unit Actions Battle Study
• With the First Marine Division Occasional Paper
• Task Force 58 Occasional Paper
• Fortitudine, quarterly bulletin
• Fire Ice Combat Art Catalog
• Confederate Marine Corps General Gardner Paper
• Various Reprints and Articles in Leatherneck,
  Marine Corps Gazette

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Planned Publications - 2008 / 2009

• COIN Anthology
• GWOT Collection
• Winning the Hearts and Minds photo book I and II
• OEF, Task Force 58 monograph
• OIF-I, Baghdad, Bashra, and Beyond monograph
• OIF-I, Force Service Support Group monograph
• OIF-I, Marine Aviation monograph
• OIF-I, Task Force Tarawa Battle Study
• OIF-II, US Marines monograph
• OIF-II, Battle of Fallujah monograph
• SOCOM, Det 1 monograph
• Gulf War
• Khafji Definitive History Khafji Battle Study
• Al Najaf Battle Study
• Developmental History of the Marine Corps (1970
  2000)
• Marines in the Frigate Navy definitive history

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Current Initiatives

• Integration of Lean Six Sigma Writing Process
  Improvement
• Office Infrastructure Upgrades Digitization
• Computers, Photo Imaging Equipment, Graphics
  Software
• Microsoft Share Point Implementation
• Office / Customer Collaboration Tool with Web
  Access
• Digitization of Reference Files and Oral History
  Collection
• Oral History Collections
• GWOT, Mongolia, Thailand, Europe, VMV-22 Osprey
  Launch
• Media Promotion
• Podcasts National Geographic documentary
• Phase II Research National Museum of the Marine
  Corps expansion
• MCU Press Launch

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Current Initiatives (Cont) MCU Press Launch

• Vision - To enhance the Marine Corps University
  academic and scholarly reputation among other
  institutions of higher education.
• Mission To publish a balance of scholarly and
  relevant historical publications and to share the
  official Marine Corps history
• Target Audience
• HQMC, MCU, DoD, Veterans, Families
• Academia
• General Public
• MCU Press Launch - Two Imprints
• Retain Historical Imprint
• Introduce MCU Scholarly Journal

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MCU PressPhased Approach
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MCU PressStrategic Planning Phase Jan to Dec
2007

• Revise HD Organizational Structure / Business
  Functions
• MCU Press Branch / Editing Design Section
• Add Circulations, Warehousing/Distribution,
  Public Affairs Roles
• Increase Staffing Levels
• Civilian Hires 5 Total
• FY08 / 21 civilians
• GS 13 - Senior Editor
• GS 11- Circulation Manager
• GS 11 Historian / Writer (3 positions total
  btwn FY08 FY10)
• FY09 / 22 civilians FY10 23 civilians
• Retain Mobilized Reserves to fill gap FY08
  2009
• Build Liaison with GPO and USNI Press
• Improve IT Office Infrastructure
• Computer Modernization Purchases estimated
  delivery Oct 2008
• Technical Professional Training 80 completed
• Share Point Public Web Site Migration
  estimated Oct 2007

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MCU PressLaunch Phase - Jan to Dec 2008

• Step 1 Launch
• Host Launch Party / Press Release Jan 2008
• Establish Networks
• Step 2 - Publish
• Prioritized manuscripts per production schedule
• Quarterly Fortitudine Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct
• First issue of MCU Scholarly Journal TBD
• Step 3 Monitor Timeline
• Monthly Editorial Review Board
• Monthly Writers Group / Publication Status
  Meetings
• Update Publication Production Schedule

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MCU PressProduction Phase - Jan 2009

• Step 1 - Publish
• Prioritized manuscripts per production schedule
• Quarterly Fortitudine Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct
• First issue of MCU Scholarly Journal TBD
• Step 2 Monitor Timeline
• Monthly Editorial Review Board
• Monthly Writers Group / Publication Status
  Meetings
• Update Publication Production Schedule
• Step 3 Implement Lean Six Sigma Process
  Improvements
• Establish Baselines Measure Metrics

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