The Marine Corps is experiencing major equipment changes in almost every occupational field. These changes are impacting the training pipeline and especially the formal schools. This paper describes how the Training Situation Analysis (TSA) is used to cope with these rapid changes and their impacts upon Marine Corps formal school training. The TSA, as conducted for a Marine Corps formal school, functions as a management plan that identifies the training need, considers alternatives and specifies the solution for the need, and describes how the solution should be implemented.