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The Marine Corps plans to get rid of its tanks and shrink its force to take on China
businessinsider. ^
| 3/24/2020
| Jeff Schogol, Task & Purpose 16 hours ago
Posted on 03/24/2020 10:46:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: FlipWilson
Tanks came in handy on Iwo Jima.
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posted on
03/25/2020 7:40:22 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: DarthVader
We don’t. But are you willing to bet the country that the Chi-coms won’t? Are you willing to bet that they don’t have a stockpile of neutron weapons?
I’m not.
To: Spktyr
103
posted on
03/25/2020 8:00:14 AM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
To: SkyDancer
Why should teens today get blamed for hippies/flower children cowardice of the 60s? Projection on the younger generations is nothing but boomer guilt.
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posted on
03/25/2020 8:21:35 AM PDT
by
SanchoP
(Living your life in fear is merely existing. You might as well be dead already.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Right now, manned vehicles like the V-22 aren’t obsolete quite yet - after all, they keep working when radio control links are jammed, something drones have a problem with. And surface to ground missile against vehicles was thought to be a forgone conclusion until real world active protection systems demonstrated that the ground vehicles weren’t quite ready to roll over and die for the missiles.
They’re still playing with a belly gun for the MV-22 to go along with the .50BMG GAU-21 on the back deck: https://news.usni.org/2019/02/21/tweaks-upgrades-mv-22b-osprey-poised-add-might-marines
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posted on
03/25/2020 8:25:51 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: SanchoP
Because it’s the way they are.
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posted on
03/25/2020 8:30:06 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Secret Agent Man
Remember, this is just for the Marines. Not the Army.
Marines are the smallest branch and are usually the rapid deployment fast in and out units. Not all their missions ever even call for armored mobile artillery.
The smallest branch has pilots, are on ships and on land. They know their deployments and missions the best, and whens the last time Marines did missions with tanks?
********
Not all missions but some do.
So, sure, lets completely castrate the force and remove *all* ability to adjust to the mission.
Blinding hot rage doesn’t even begin to express feelz for this piece of degenerate filth of a Commandant.
This is the same piece of idiot filth that’s removing the Assaultman MOS from the Corps because “didn’t need it much last war” at exactly the same time the US military is investing crap tons of money into trying to figure out how to deal with the underground fortifications the Chinese like to use and build.
So yeah. Lets just get rid of a demolitions assault element already available in each rifle company and just let the very limited resource of engineers handle all that.
This idiot couldn’t be working at the behest and best interests of a foreign enemy any plainer or clearer if he wore that enemy’s uniform to work every day.
Semper Mudder Frackin’ Fi.
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posted on
03/25/2020 8:31:13 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: mad_as_he$$
If you use a neutron you are going to get hit back with a thermonuclear strike.
108
posted on
03/25/2020 8:33:42 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
To: DarthVader
Depends on who is in the White House.
To: NFHale
And in some areas, millions of democrats welcoming them as comrade liberator... Yes, we will have to deal with a lot of those A holes too.
110
posted on
03/25/2020 9:47:06 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Father of US Air Force Officer, 2/3 of the way through USAF pilot training. One more aircraft to fly)
To: Mark17
The mayor from the original “Red Dawn” comes to mind...
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posted on
03/25/2020 9:55:56 AM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Enterprise
I suuppose it’s probably a rash jusgment then, to say they will get out of it entirely.
Otherwise then its coordinating with army if they need tanks.
If you are correct and it’s a lower percentage of missions, that is probably not the thing breaking their budgets.
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posted on
03/25/2020 10:13:07 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: RomanSoldier19
In WW II in the Pacific, the marines invaded and the Army occupied.
Perhaps what is needed is a tank company rather than a battalion.
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posted on
03/25/2020 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: Beagle8U
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posted on
03/25/2020 11:18:59 AM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: 5th MEB
Sounds just like Alabama.
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posted on
03/25/2020 11:25:12 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Slo-Joe Biden... puts the Dem in Dementia.)
To: OrioleFan
The Army saw some very tough fighting on Okinawa, though...Hacksaw Ridge
comes to mind.
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posted on
03/25/2020 11:40:12 AM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: major_gaff
Agreed. Hacksaw Ridge was a terrific and horrific movie. I lived in Lynchburg, VA for a while. Desmond Doss was a hero.
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posted on
03/25/2020 2:28:18 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
To: RomanSoldier19
Fake exploding bats. billions of fake exploding bats.
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posted on
03/25/2020 2:31:56 PM PDT
by
Leep
(Everyday is Trump Day!)
To: OrioleFan
Hacksaw was one of many very bloody battles to take southern Okinawa.
The 96th and 77th ID's took a pounding. The 1st Marines, moving in
parallel actually had an easier time of it for once. The HBO mini-series
'The Pacific' gives a pretty good representation of just how bad it was on
Okinawa for the Marines and it was worse in some instances for the Army.
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posted on
03/25/2020 3:59:07 PM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: major_gaff
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posted on
03/25/2020 6:55:50 PM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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