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Marine Corps Considers Ending Policy of “Every Marine is a Rifleman”
AmericaFlashNews.com ^ | May 8, 2017 | Admin

Posted on 05/10/2017 4:05:22 PM PDT by huldah1776

The United State’s military may be about to undergo a radical change. The Marine Corps Times is reporting that there’s an initiative in the works that might see Marines branch out, away from the traditional model that trained every member of the Corps on the basics of physical combat. Some of the new Marines may even skip basic training.

The idea gained momentum almost a year ago, when Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter suggested a military build up required soldiers with computer skills, and that these new recruits might be able to move into units with credit for their civilian expertise and experience acknowledged in the form of advanced rank.

The concept seemed ridiculous to many Marines who begin their military careers with rigorous physical training and a battery of drills designed to increase their proficiency with small arms.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: dod; it; marinecorps; marines; obamasfault; usmc
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To: Boomer

I’m very aware of Navy corpsmen, having worked with a former corpsman. My point was that corpsmen, though working alongside Marines, were officially Navy people. Similarly, if Marines needed computer support, it could be provided by Navy people.


61 posted on 05/10/2017 7:06:13 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Titan Magroyne

*Devil Dog ping*


62 posted on 05/10/2017 7:07:41 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: huldah1776

Thank you and will do.

Your prayers for our servicemen are much appreciated.


63 posted on 05/10/2017 7:11:03 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: huldah1776

A Marine isn’t really a Marine if he doesn’t know at least 25 different ways to kill a man with a paper drinking straw. This is stupid.


64 posted on 05/10/2017 7:12:02 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

On that note, I really need to do an Appleseed shoot, but do OK as it is. My niece’s fiancé, who was carrying a M240 7.62x51 belt fed MG around some of the finer neighborhoods of Afghanistan a few years ago, pronounced my riflery good enough for practical social work out at the farm last Thanksgiving, so I’ve got that going for me!


65 posted on 05/10/2017 7:16:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

https://youtu.be/15gJR1ShVV4


66 posted on 05/10/2017 7:22:37 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: sergeantdave

Did you read the article? The reason I used them as a source was because we cannot quote MarineCorpsTimes.

Here ya go, the author paraphrased this article. Carter is RE-Considering it. They need 800 techs in the Corps. Want to recruit?

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/future-of-the-marine-corps


67 posted on 05/10/2017 7:41:36 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776
Maybe it is because it is about 66-years since PI.

Maybe it's because the Corps has been pusified so badly over the last 20 years.

Maybe it is because the Corps has been reduced to a disgraceful skeleton of what it was once upon a time.

To think that this final insult to those jarheads who fought and died for this country for more than 240-years makes me wonder if it is worth staying around another 17-years (100).

In any case, it is time to burn all my green skivvies...

68 posted on 05/10/2017 7:56:19 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Oh, okay, got it. I didn’t quite get your meaning before.

Funny how a lot of people don’t know the Navy and Marines are practically joined at the hip. Everyone knows about aircraft carriers but I was stationed on the Tarawa which has been decommissioned. It held a compliment of 800 sailors and 2200 Marines while on mission underway. It was the next size down from an aircraft carrier and had a flight deck and hanger just like a carrier. The difference was it held helicopters and Harrier jets; both Marine manned and supported. It also held beachhead attack craft to get the Marines from the ship to the beach. As a corpsman I worked in the built-in hospital complete with an operating room and rotated as the ship rolled and pitched so the surgeons could still do their work in a storm or just heavy seas.

I guess that kind of mission readiness is outdated now with drones and other unmanned aircraft. If that ever changes though; I suspect it’s sitting somewhere in mothball condition so it could be put back in service if needed within a year or so.

By the way, when deployed, you can’t tell the difference between a corpsman and the Marines he’s assigned to. For all practical purposes that corpsman is a Marine. I regret not taking on that kind of duty or following through with BUD’s training I qualified for in Boot Camp. The Navy was a great life when some of the idiotic peacetime rules and crap weren’t making it a pain to stick with but maybe it was that way to root out those who shouldn’t stay in anyway.


69 posted on 05/10/2017 8:07:24 PM PDT by Boomer (Stupid is as stupid does and no one does stupid like the left.)
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To: SuperLuminal

No, never burn them. When my son was around 5 I took him to the surplus store (by then he already wanted to join) and he loved it. He wore a green flight jacket for as long as it fit and he has it for his son when he comes.

It isn’t only the Corps that has been reduced, it is all the branches.

Today’s Marines do have the heart and mind to know that they can do it and they still don’t ever give up. It may be harder for them without the training you had at boot to complete the Crucible, but at Pendleton they still climb the Reaper so I think at PI it is probably the same.

Your voice has probably been heard along with the others who replied and I truly doubt Mattis will allow anyone to be in a unit that is not ready. I watched his confirmation hearing and readiness is a top priority.


70 posted on 05/10/2017 8:46:31 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: SuperLuminal

oh, youtube and DVIDS have current video and photos.


71 posted on 05/10/2017 9:02:10 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Drumbo

Aw hell naw.

Warrior ethos comes from being one.


72 posted on 05/10/2017 10:33:01 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: TheTimeOfMan
"...Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ...

Wasn't he the incompetent, flaming turd burglar?

He should be shot for his crimes against our nation.

73 posted on 05/11/2017 8:01:25 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: huldah1776
Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter

I have identified the problem ...

74 posted on 05/11/2017 8:02:56 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: dangerdoc
Marine Tactical Wire Assault Team

That's not an accident. Somebody did that on purpose.

75 posted on 05/11/2017 8:05:10 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain

You think?


76 posted on 05/11/2017 9:22:00 AM PDT by dangerdoc (disgruntled)
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To: huldah1776

My father was a US Marine, enlisted age 17 and discharged before reaching 20 yrs of age.

Amphib tank driver, Okinawa first wave, 45 days combat, seriously wounded and before he was waiting his next assignment when the war ended.

He taught me from childhood that every Marine was first, an infantryman. He arranged for me to participate in Devil Pups as an adolescent.


77 posted on 05/11/2017 12:12:46 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: NorthMountain

LOL yup.


78 posted on 05/11/2017 12:45:13 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: truth_seeker

My son went to Oki in 2014. Now I know why the Corps doesn’t want to move their base. Hallowed ground.

I’ve been so entrenched in where they are fighting now that I haven’t read their history. I’ve just started reading about Oki and the tears are streaming.


79 posted on 05/11/2017 7:45:52 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: truth_seeker
The irony of reading about Japan's fight on Oki and this article...

from Marine Corps Association article "Okinawa: The Final Great Battle of World War II An American triumph through bloodshed"

The Battle of Okinawa had a dramatic effect not only on the Pacific campaign but on the nature of warfare to this day. The battles in the Pacific made evident to America that they could defeat the Japanese in any fight. The painful realization from information gained from Okinawa was the high price that would be paid for every inch of Japanese land the Americans took. The Japanese mainland defense force was more than 1 million strong. In addition, the Japanese possessed 8,000 aircraft and kamikaze pilots who were being trained every day. Even the civilian population was trained for combat with the invading Americans; suicide attacks by civilians were expected.

80 posted on 05/11/2017 8:14:45 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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