The Maneuver Captain's Career Course (MCCC or MC3) is a military training and education course primarily for U.S. Army infantry and armor officers. Organized under the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) at Fort Benning, Georgia, the course is 22 weeks long. While the course's students consist mostly of U.S. Army maneuver-branch captains and senior first lieutenants, several U.S. Marine Corps captains and officers from allied nations also attend. MCCC's mission i…
MCCC's origins are in the Infantry Officer Advanced Course and Armor Officer Advanced Course. These two courses, under the U.S. Army Infantry School and the U.S. Army Armor School, both at Fort Benning, served a similar purpose in preparing captains in those branches for company command and service on a battalion staff. With the U.S. Congress' mandated Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) reorganization of the Department of Defense in 2005, the infantry and armor …
Three 'teams' fall under the course's Directorate of Training whose officer-in-charge is a lieutenant colonel. Each team, run by a senior major, consists of 12 seminars (or small groups), with a senior captain or major instructing about 15 student officers. The course is offered six times per year, with each team conducting two iterations. With small gaps, three classes, each of about 160 students, run concurrently. At any one time, the student population is usually 400 to 600 officers…
The company phase is the first of two phases in the program of instruction. Topics covered include doctrinal preparation, where all students are grounded in the latest U.S. Army doctrine. Key references include field manuals covering operational terms and graphics; brigade combat team organization; tactics; offensive, defensive, and stability operations; and maneuver companies and battalions. In the small group setting, students prepare and brief five company-level operations o…
MCCC hosts about 15 foreign officers every class. The goal of this program is to encourage foreign and U.S. officers to learn from one another, building mutual respect, trust, and understanding among allied armies. International officers are required to score a minimum of 75 on the English Comprehension Level test to be eligible to attend the course. English is usually a second or third language, so the course can be challenging from a linguistic perspective. To miti…
• Fort Benning
• U.S. Army Captain