Posted on 03/24/2020 10:46:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The commandant of the Marine Corps is pushing an ambitious plan to shrink the Corps and turn it into a more mobile fighting force. Part of that plan is a reduction in manpower, but the service's top officer also wants to cut a number of other units, including all of the Corps' tank battalions.
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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.
Rog
Why should teens today get blamed for hippies/flower children cowardice of the 60s? Projection on the younger generations is nothing but boomer guilt.
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
Because it’s the way they are.
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?
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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.
If you use a neutron you are going to get hit back with a thermonuclear strike.
Depends on who is in the White House.
Yes, we will have to deal with a lot of those A holes too.
The mayor from the original “Red Dawn” comes to mind...
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.
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.
Khe Sanh.
Sounds just like Alabama.
Agreed. Hacksaw Ridge was a terrific and horrific movie. I lived in Lynchburg, VA for a while. Desmond Doss was a hero.
Fake exploding bats. billions of fake exploding bats.
They all had it bad.
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