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As Tank Battalions Shut Down, Dozens of Marines Are Joining the Army
Military.com ^ | 30Apr2021 | Gina Harkins

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; marines; tanks; treadhead
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I wonder if the equipment is being transferred over also.
1 posted on 05/03/2021 8:58:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It is. 1st tanks bn debt theirs to the army.


2 posted on 05/03/2021 9:00:25 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Rural_Michigan
1st tanks bn debt theirs to the army.

Please translate.

3 posted on 05/03/2021 9:02:33 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


4 posted on 05/03/2021 9:02:55 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The proliferation of good anti-tank missiles and recoilless rifles may spell the end of the traditional uses of armor. Same with attack choppers.


5 posted on 05/03/2021 9:03:42 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


6 posted on 05/03/2021 9:03:52 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They need something on our southern border. What we have is not stopping the invasion.


7 posted on 05/03/2021 9:05:37 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


8 posted on 05/03/2021 9:05:38 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: M. Thatcher

Paper work....................


9 posted on 05/03/2021 9:06:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: M. Thatcher

I speak Jarhead, but I didn’t understand it either.


10 posted on 05/03/2021 9:08:21 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“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.


11 posted on 05/03/2021 9:10:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( We are alive! In spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021!)
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Lets see, maternity tank overalls, changing tables inside the tanks, more feminine helmets, a ‘period couch’ to lie down in, etc. etc.


12 posted on 05/03/2021 9:11:23 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Any Chinese Communist Party ships show up for the surplus tanks yet ?


13 posted on 05/03/2021 9:18:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s going to be a culture shock for a while.


14 posted on 05/03/2021 9:19:28 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Seruzawa

The proliferation of good anti-tank missiles and recoilless rifles may spell the end of the traditional uses of armor. Same with attack choppers.


Sure, but tanks and attack HCs are very useful until they aren’t.


15 posted on 05/03/2021 9:20:42 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: alternatives?
"They need something on our southern border. What we have is not stopping the invasion."

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.

16 posted on 05/03/2021 9:24:08 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

The tanks are going to the 1st tank battalion, I think.


17 posted on 05/03/2021 9:27:07 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: M. Thatcher

‘Please translate.’

every thread seems to have that request lately...must be the covid...


18 posted on 05/03/2021 9:28:41 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Seruzawa

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.


19 posted on 05/03/2021 9:32:16 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


20 posted on 05/03/2021 9:33:14 AM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.)
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