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To: C19fan

You could fold all the other service’s missions into the US Navy.


2 posted on 04/04/2016 10:11:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Former CO of mine once said (at a tri-service convention)..”Navy has Sea Air and Land covered, so the rest of you need to just stay the hell outta the way!”
(and he was right! :-)


3 posted on 04/04/2016 10:12:37 AM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: central_va

I recall reading an article years ago where a senior Marine (4 star type one each) wrote that there was no real competition between the Army and the Marine Corps for mission because the Marine Corps is a battle winner while the Army is a war winner.

I took the general to mean that the Marine Corps is historically an assault force to be used primarily for short periods of very intense combat and then to be withdrawn to rest, regroup and refit. Given that operational reality, the Marine Corps has, shall we say, a certain “attitude” about how it postures its force structure, equips and trains those forces, and a very deep commitment to mission success regardless of casualties. (Well, at least it did while I was in and I’m pretty certain it still does.)

By contrast, the Army has to have the size, force structure, and in-depth logistics needed to sustain combat operations of widely varying intensity over long periods of time and it must supply forces for a multitude of highly varying missions in widespread locations.

There is certainly mission overlap (especially the part about closing with and destroying the enemy with fire and close combat) but the breadth of mission responsibilities is a lot larger than for the Marine Corps.

Once you shift focus in that way, a lot of difference in the size, composition, capacities, and institutional attitudes between the two forces makes sense.

You could assign Army missions to the Navy but you would soon find the Navy building another Army-like force to perform them. Or the Marine Corps would morph into something that, due to its sheer size and wide mission set, wasn’t quite the Marine Corps any more.


11 posted on 04/04/2016 11:32:01 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: central_va
You could fold all the other service’s missions into the US Navy.

That would be Constitutionally sound, since the Navy is to be provided and maintained, while the Army is to be "raised" and appropriated money, but for no longer than two years at a time.

12 posted on 04/04/2016 11:36:05 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump <s>Cruz</s> or Lose 2016)
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