Marines with 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, conduct amphibious training aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Marines with 4th Tank Battalion, the Navy’s Assault Craft Unit-5 and the Army’s 481st Heavy Boat Company teamed together to conduct several rehearsed amphibious landings. Through integrating Marines, Sailors and Soldiers as well as equipment, small unit leaders gained familiarity with operating in a joint environment as well as exercise senior leader’s ability to communicate and effectively manage operations across three service platforms.The Army is making sure that it will have a role in the Pacific. Between this exercise, paratroopers making 15 hour flights to Australia and suiting up inside the plane before the drop and then inviting Indian forces to the US to train, its obvious that they're serious about a seat at the table.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
4th Tanks amphibious training...video by Lance Cpl. Angel Serna
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The last time we had a major slug out in the Pacific, the Army had a seat at the table. They key to winning the war on day one is to have the skills in the Army and USMC that are needed on day one, and for the Army I'm pretty sure that means getting to the fight. Which means brushing up on amphibious operations, which means training more for real joint landing ops with the Navy and USMC. This is not the Army trying to eat the USMC lunch, this is hoping that we don't have to have a Pearl Harbor before we get to Leyte this time around.
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