via Marine Corps Times...
A MEB is suppose to be a much larger formation than a MEU! Why would a MEB fall on to a MEU at the scene?????
This is just a bitched up SPMAGTF thats shed its ground vehicles for MV-22's.
I can't wait till we get a grunt as Commandant. He's going to have a lot of field daying to do to clean up this huge aviation only clusterfuck thinking that these confused, arrogant, misguided son of a bitches are doing to my Corps.
I marvel at the thought that with the massive clean up thats going to take place that the MV-22 is considered the bell of the ball. The Filipino people need a fully realized Ground Combat Component vehicle set to get real relief, not just images for public consumption.
You need engineer vehicles to remove debris. MTVRs to deliver food. AAVs to get to places that are remote.
All the MV-22 will do is blow around enough debris to cause further injuries.
More recently at a Washington, D.C., event, Maj. Gen. Frank McKenzie, Marine Corps representative to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, discussed the significance of the Marine expeditionary brigade, a force significantly smaller and lighter than the 2,200-strong Marine expeditionary units, to Marine Corps planning for future crisis response.What the fuck is McKenzie talking about?
“(MEBs are) fully manned, they can go on very short notice,” he said. “They would have the capability to go forward, to fall in on an existing MEU, or to fall in on joint forces that are forward deployed.”
Working with two Navy dock landing ships en route from Okinawa and air support from the Ospreys and four KC-130J Hercules, Marines in the Philippines are able to play to the strength of their amphibious pedigree, the assistant commandant said.
“So this is part of the amphibious and expeditionary nature that the Navy and Marine Corps team prides themselves on,” Paxton said. “The Philippines happens to be one of those areas that is kind of uniquely, geographically relevant to the Navy-Marine Task Force.”
A MEB is suppose to be a much larger formation than a MEU! Why would a MEB fall on to a MEU at the scene?????
This is just a bitched up SPMAGTF thats shed its ground vehicles for MV-22's.
I can't wait till we get a grunt as Commandant. He's going to have a lot of field daying to do to clean up this huge aviation only clusterfuck thinking that these confused, arrogant, misguided son of a bitches are doing to my Corps.
I marvel at the thought that with the massive clean up thats going to take place that the MV-22 is considered the bell of the ball. The Filipino people need a fully realized Ground Combat Component vehicle set to get real relief, not just images for public consumption.
You need engineer vehicles to remove debris. MTVRs to deliver food. AAVs to get to places that are remote.
All the MV-22 will do is blow around enough debris to cause further injuries.
