Salvage and Training Center, Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School* — Navy Remote Training Sites; NAS North Island, California or NAS Brunswick, Maine Army Airborne School* — Fort Benning, Georgia United States Army Static Line Jumpmaster School (Fort Benning, Georgia) United States Army Ranger School (Fort Benning, Georgia) Special Operations Training Group Schools (i.e. Urban Sniper, HRST, etc.) (SOTG)* — One SOTG exists under each MEF; I MEF, II MEF, and III MEF. Recon and Surveillance Leaders Course — Ranger School, Fort Benning, Georgia Pathfinder Course — Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, or Army Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky Military Free Fall (John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center) / Multi Mission Parachutist Course (CPS Coolidge, Arizona)Military Free Fall (Jumpmaster) School — John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and SchoolMountain Leaders (Summer/Winter) Course — Pickle Meadows, CAScout Sniper Course — School of Infantry (West), Camp Pendleton, California; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Quantico, Virginia; or MCB HawaiiMountain Sniper (Bridgeport, California)Reconnaissance Team Leader Course (Camp Pendleton, California)Scout/Sniper Team Leader CourseMethods of Entry / Breacher (MCB Quantico, Virginia)Joint Terminal Attack Controller (Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic/Pacific)High Risk Personnel (HRP) Course —''' MCB Quantico Mission Ground intelligence officers are trained as the primary platoon commanders in division reconnaissance companies, infantry battalion scout/sniper platoons, and other ground intelligence assignments: Battalion, Regiment, and Division Staffs; Force Service Support Groups; and Intelligence Battalions. Ground intelligence officers serve as commanders of the reconnaissance companies within the reconnaissance battalions. They plan, direct, and assist in the deployment and tactical employment of ground reconnaissance units. Ground intelligence officers are responsible for the discipline and welfare of their unit's Marines. To fulfill these responsibilities they analyze and evaluate intelligence; estimate the operational situation; and formulate, coordinate, and execute appropriate plans for offensive/defensive maneuver, reconnaissance, fire support nuclear biological, and chemical defense, directed energy warfare, communications and operational logistics and maintenance. Normally, the Recon Platoon Commander works in the Landing Force Operations Center (LFOC) or Combat Operations Center (COC). Here he receives reports from his teams, transmits direction to them & coordinates any support they need in the field. Recon Team Leaders are normally Sergeants or Staff Sergeants (some Force Recon Teams). The Team Leader is the senior man to go to the field on missions. Some missions require the full platoon to act as a unit, and in that case the Platoon Commander may also