Posted on 05/03/2021 8:58:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
More than 450 Marines' careers have been affected by a forcewide redesign that launched last year as the Corps reorganizes to take on new threats, sending hundreds into new career fields, early retirement, or even Army tank units.
Commandant Gen. David Berger issued his first annual update to the forcewide redesign he announced in March 2020. The changes center around making the Marine Corps lighter and more expeditionary to take on new threats from sea and ashore.
Tank battalions, bridging companies and law enforcement units were slashed as part of the plan. Marines in those jobs are being told to find new military occupational specialties, or MOSs; consider another service; or opt to end their careers earlier than planned.
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It is. 1st tanks bn debt theirs to the army.
Please translate.
I heard of and spoke with quite a few marines that were getting out because of the drawbacks. They signed up to kill hadji, and since the military wouldn’t deploy them much anymore, they got out.
The proliferation of good anti-tank missiles and recoilless rifles may spell the end of the traditional uses of armor. Same with attack choppers.
Everybody likes “Light” until the shrapnel starts flying.
“These helmets are heavy.”
“Tanks are expensive compared to an Infantry Soldier.”
All true.....until the shrapnel starts flying where you are at.
They need something on our southern border. What we have is not stopping the invasion.
Is this the same woke democrat in a uniform with stars who banned any sign of the Old South? He’s reorganizing so as to better support the forthcoming democrat firearms confiscation program.
Paper work....................
I speak Jarhead, but I didn’t understand it either.
“law enforcement units were slashed as part of the plan. Marines in those jobs are being told to find new military occupational specialties, or MOSs; consider another service; or opt to end their careers earlier than planned.”
Just in time to join the new private protection forces for America’s elites, who are getting rid of the city/county paid cops, and hiring their own protective security forces.
Lets see, maternity tank overalls, changing tables inside the tanks, more feminine helmets, a ‘period couch’ to lie down in, etc. etc.
Any Chinese Communist Party ships show up for the surplus tanks yet ?
That’s going to be a culture shock for a while.
The proliferation of good anti-tank missiles and recoilless rifles may spell the end of the traditional uses of armor. Same with attack choppers.
They are not trying to stop the invasion. They would use tanks against us, not the invaders who they are busing and flying all over the country.
The tanks are going to the 1st tank battalion, I think.
‘Please translate.’
every thread seems to have that request lately...must be the covid...
That has been predicted since 1950 without a lot of real world proof in a world where bazookas and Recoil-less Rifles appeared in 1942. Even wire guided and Fire and Forget Anti-Tank Guided Missiles did not control combat armor in ‘67, ‘73, the last stages of Vietnam, Iran-Iraq, Dessert Storm, or Operation Infinitive Horseshit...
Sword and shield...the competition continues.
Good question about the equipment...
Marines are going to also kill off artillery.
Wonder if Stumps will close, though I think it is now used for multi-service training.
Stumps = 29 palms California - Marine Artillery base in the middle of nowhere low desert...
not every Marine had the privilege of serving at Stumps and participating in grab-ass Thursdays.
Semper Fi.
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