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2016-10-04 Government

U.S. Marines plan to modernize their smallest combat units

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Posted by Pappy 2016-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 landing teams should be reinforced with more command-and-control capability, more unmanned aerial systems and robots with improved sensors and lasers

What about achievable RoE?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-04 08:18|| 2016-10-04 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 That's the politicians' job.

Posted by Pappy 2016-10-04 08:35|| 2016-10-04 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't the smallest Marine combat unit an individual rifleman? Was when I was in.

Well, to be fair, 0311s were allowed to kill people then too so there you are.

Posted by GORT 2016-10-04 09:04|| 2016-10-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Tailoring the fighting force to face the immediate threat, not the strategic one. For any significant event, the Battalion Landing Team (BLT) was designed to be the nucleus of the deployable force, with combined arms and sustainment capability for limited periods. To chop that up into 4-5 smaller forces, geographically disconnected, is nuts. It created a very unrealistic tail-to-tooth ratio which decreases the effective capability of the BLT sized units, which are further tailored to the deployment mechanisms of the MEF/Navy Task force. Somebody at the WH level is messing with the fundamentals of the USMC?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-10-04 17:24|| 2016-10-04 17:24|| Front Page Top

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