In addition to post 97, I’d like to add that it is my hopes that the Marines already know what this takes in regard to logistics. They had better already know.
People can tell you how to load up, people can show you how to load up...but every unit can go further and farther if they do stuff for themselves and learn the nitty-gritty details of preparation.
I'm not going to sit here and justify combat drills to you, since your comments indicate you know little about deployment, supply, training and the Marines in general.
Sorry for the waste of your time,
I am going to so love hearing the whining little b#tches when one of these outfits decides that malls, auditoriums and schools are open targets, then have complaints about the "lack of preparation" or why training didn't involve more "realistic" scenarios to prevent collateral damage to people and property.
One 6 man team with proper training could decimate a mall, auditorium or school. Two teams would be the perfect scenario for the prior massacre with the bonus of ambushing all the responders as they looked into the mall, auditorium and school.
Moving through an ambush is hard. Cause you've got to be trained over and over and over again to not do the thing that is "most logical" , hunker down. You have to attack through it, and the only way to make your brain forget the impulse of fear, confusion and self preservation is TRAINING, TRAINING and more training.
In the cold, in the heat, in the swamp, in the snow, on a beach, on a river bank, highway, dirt road, even after 24 or 36 hours of no sleep... all to react as a Marine.
My friend, we will fight enemies in cities and I'd like my guys to have that training. Maybe the people in your neck of the woods need to just sack up and admire the Marines learning how to be warriors.
Kinda like watching Rembrandt or Cezanne.