via Defense Web.
With the Ospreys as a key player in the Philippine’s relief, another story highlights the flexibility of this unique aircraft.I'm skeptical.
According to a USMC story by Captain Sharon Hyland:
Marines from the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response completed a long-range transport of Marines from Moron, Spain, to Dakar, Senegal, on November 13, utilizing MV-22Bs and a KC-130J.
The trip totalled more than 1,500 nautical miles and consisted of more than 30 Marines from SPMAGTF-CR and Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13. The Marines with SPMAGTF-Africa 13 were inserted in Senegal to participate in a small-boat operations and marksmanship training and exercises with the Senegalese military.
The mission marked the first time MV-22B Ospreys arrived in West Africa and offered the Senegalese and American Embassy personnel an up-close look at the tiltrotor aircraft during a static display and orientation flight.
This flight to Senegal can be added to other activities of the Osprey worldwide including: a first landing on a Japanese warship in the APR; the TRAP mission from North Carolina to Colorado; the Philippine’s relief mission; and the training with the Foreign Legion.
Clearly, the Osprey and its capabilities are becoming central to US Marine Corps global operations.
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Flying 30 Marines fifteen hundred miles does nothing but make me wonder who emptied the porta potty.
That's a piss ant force for a piss ant mission.
A bigger issue is why? Why is the Marine Corps filling the airwaves with MV-22 propaganda? Is its funding under potential threat? The concept of a SPMAGTF-CR doesn't hold up to anyone that has even a thimble full of knowledge about combat ops so what gives?
