Looks like there would be plenty...
The Marines have done beach landings in Korea before.
The Marines have always kept up their beach landing expertise. Never know when they might have to do it again...
Posted on 06/04/2010 3:35:07 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Brig. Gen. Rex McMillian watched proudly Friday from a scrubby bluff as hundreds of Marines in seafaring tanks hit the Southern California beach in perfect unison with support helicopters buzzing overhead.
It had been nearly 10 years since his Marines last trained in such a large-scale beach invasion exercise with the Navy.
With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq taking troops to landlocked regions, many of the Marines had never been on a ship — let alone stormed a beach — until the "Dawn Blitz" exercise, the largest of its kind on the West Coast since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The two-week training drill ended with 5,000 Marines and sailors staging the mock invasion.
...On Sunday, Americans honor the heroes of D-Day on the 66th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious landing ever that was credited with turning around WWII.
"The lessons we've learned 60 years ago, we've kind of encoded them into our genetics," Marine Maj. Howard Hall said as he stood in front of a bank of radios at a command center aboard the Bonhomme Richard.
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Gates is scrutinizing every aspect of the military in his search for roughly $10 billion in annual savings.
Thus speaks the turd in the punchbowl.
Any beaches in North Korea?
More difficult than what? Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa? Good grief.
Look, Billy Mitchell proved before WWII that a newfangled biplane could sink a battleship with a bomb, but that fact sure didn't invalidate the USMC in WWII. The USAAF was bouncing the rubble in Japan and Germany for months with hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs, but the until you actually send ground units to seize control of the enemy's source of power you're just putting on a fireworks show.
Gates, however respected he may be as a leader in Washington, was a Lieutenant in the friggin' Air Force in Missouri.
He thinks like an airedale flyboy. Someone like that would never understand the first thing about the mission of the Marine Corps. He'd never risk getting wet sand in his USAF tap dancing shoes.
Unless you're just going to sling ICBM nukes from the safety of South Dakota, you're going to need a Navy and a Marine Corps.
Cut the US Army, Gates. They're the ones without any Constitutional provision for their existence.
Already in the plans -— a 14,000-24,000 cut in size of active Marines.
This speaks volumes for 1) the administration’s understanding of national security needs and 2) hard economic times are on the way.
Looks like there would be plenty...
The Marines have done beach landings in Korea before.
The Marines have always kept up their beach landing expertise. Never know when they might have to do it again...
If Gates had guts he’d question the value of re-taking CA.
If we let this happen, shame on us.
That’s why they’re called “Marines.”
Defense cuts and cuts to national security organizations are the only cuts you are going to see from the Obama administration. Meanwhile, social spending will INCREASE.
It has been over 52 years since my last landing in one of those little "Higgins" boats. My how things have changed. That thing sure looks like it beats riding in an LCVP.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
I was thinking the same thing. I think there is or was one named Inchon.
A hard, cold fact. Despite all the drones, missiles, smart bombs and other high-tec gimcracks, that ground don’t belong to you until some grunt or jarhead with a rifle is standing on it!
I know I checked the map after I posted my remarks. My bad! Thanks for the correction.
plenty of beaches in Iran
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