page_title: Pakistan Marines
section_title: Leadership and training
hierarchical_section_title: Pakistan Marines / Personnel / Leadership and training
caption_attribution_description: English: ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Oct. 12, 2009) Marines assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU), along with Marines from Kuwait and Pakistan, conduct an amphibious assault demonstration during Exercise Bright Star 2009. Bright Star is a biennial, multinational exercise designed to improve readiness, interoperability, and strengthen the military and professional relationships among U.S., Egyptian and participating forces. Bright Star is conducted by U.S. Central Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kiona Miller/Released)
context_page_description: The Pakistan Marines; reporting name PM, also known as Pakistan Marine Corps or simply as Marines, is an expeditionary and amphibious warfare uniform service branch within the Pakistan Navy, consisting of the naval officers and other personnel to perform their duties within the Marines. The Pakistan Marines are responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the Pakistan Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces.
  In the Pakistani military leadership structure, the Marines are the expeditionary and amphibious branch within the Navy, often working closely with the Pakistan Army for training, executing expeditionary operations and logistics purposes.
  Initially established and commissioned on 1 June 1971 in East-Pakistan, there were headquartered in PNS Dacca to oversee the amphibious operations expeditionary tactics to provide the defence of East Pakistan from the Indian Army but failed to make any significant impact that led to their decommissioning in 1974.
  On 25 November 1990, the Marines were re-organized and recommissioned under Cdr.
context_section_description: The Commander Coastal Areas (COMCOAST), designated as the Chief of Staff Marines (CSM), is the highest-ranking officer in the Marines, usually at a rank of three-star, reporting directly to the Chief of Naval Staff.
  The recruits and candidates are directed to attend the Pakistan Naval Academy in Karachi in order to gain commissioned in the Marines, where the candidates pass out in courses relating the military history and training, which is conducted at the PNS Himalaya– a bootcamp of the Navy. Following commissioned, the marines officers and personnel are directed to attend the Marine Training Center (MTC) located in the Qasim Marine base for learning the art of infantry and combined arms warfare, usually instructed by the army specialists. At the MTC, the Marines completes the Basic Marines Course that included the instructions on comprehensive physical training in unarmed combat, close-quarter battle, security duties, swimming, small-arms handling and infantry tactics.
  After passing the basic military training course, the Marines are directed to attend the Pakistan Army's School of Infantry and Tactics in Quetta where they are trained together with the army soldiers. Since 1999, the Marines have been instructed to operate the Mistral missile system, ordnance, and special security courses to protect naval bases on coastal areas.
  The Marines formations and personnel wears the camouflage uniforms when deployed to an operational environment but otherwise they wear Navy dress uniforms in public and international ceremonies.
caption: The Pakistan Marine unit members dressed in operational camouflage uniforms with their U.S. counterparts in 2009.
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