MCO 8023.3 - Personnel Qualification And Certification Program For Class V Ammunition...

Scope

MCO 8023.3 provides policy and procedural guidance for the management and implementation of the Marine Corps Personnel Qualification and Certification (QUAL/CERT) Program for Class V Ammunition and Explosives (A&E). The program governs which Marines are qualified and certified to perform Class V A&E duties.

This Order provides policy and procedural guidance for the management and implementation of the Marine Corps Personnel Qualification and Certification (QUAL/CERT) Program for Class V Ammunition and Explosives (A&E). This Order is a complete revision and should be reviewed in its entirety.

Quoted from the document's opening section.

Audience

• Marines performing Class V A&E duties under the QUAL/CERT Program.
• Ammunition and ordnance staff managing the qualification and certification program.
• Commanders, whose change-of-command turnover pairs this order with AA&E accountability actions.
• Units maintaining TAMIS ammunition plans.

Content scope

Repo evidence names the program without chapter detail. Qualification and certification of personnel for Class V ammunition and explosives duties. The 2025 revision is a complete revision, review it in its entirety per its own opening.

Operative content

• Outgoing commanders reconcile a 100 percent serialized AA&E inventory by serial number, lot, and DODIC and provide TAMIS ammunition plan status before relief. The turnover checklist cites this order beside MCO 5530.14A and MCO 5100.29C Volume 8 for the action.

Connection to higher policy

Repo evidence names no statute or DoD issuance above this order.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• MCO 5530.14A. AA&E physical security, cited beside this order on the turnover checklist.
• MCO 5100.29C Volume 8. Safety companion on the same turnover row.
• MARADMIN 265/19, Interim Change to MCO 8023.3C, signed 2019-04-30.
• MARADMIN 506/21, Interim Guidance to MCO 8023.3D, signed 2021-09-27.
• TAMIS. The ammunition management system named in the turnover action.

Status

Current revision MCO 8023.3E, signed 2025-10-29, listed Current on MCPEL. Prior revisions C and D drew interim MARADMIN guidance in 2019 and 2021. Source PDF on file from the 2026-04-26 archive snapshot. One caution. The portal holds no chapter-level detail for this order, verify qualification and certification specifics against the E revision base order before acting.