"Reawakening" needs to be put asleep.

Thanks to John for sending the link!

via Marine Gazette.

...somehow, our senior leadership says we have been falling short, that we need a “reawakening.” The term “reawakening” implies that the Corps has been asleep, falling short of a standard.
Of which standards are Marines falling short? They haven’t lost on the battlefield. They have succeeded at their assigned missions in combat, yet they are told that they aren’t good enough, that their predecessors were better.
Is this so-called reawakening just the enforcement of standards that have always existed? That hardly requires a media campaign. We’ve had all manner of standards for years. Enforcing existing regulations is a simple matter of telling commanders to do so.
This is about something bigger. This is about defining what a “peacetime” Marine Corps should be.
First, “peacetime” is a relative term. Today’s multipolar world will afford no rest for the Corps, despite the withdrawal from Iraq and drawdown in Afghanistan. While combat deployments will no longer be as predictable as in the recent past, any Marine can reasonably expect to take part in combat operations or military operations other than war during some part of his service.
More importantly, we can’t tell Marines that they have done a great job fighting abroad, yet are now falling short in garrison, because there should be no difference between the two. The only reason the Marine Corps exists is to fight abroad. Everything else is background noise.
The areas in which Marines are allegedly falling short—what are those, exactly? Disciplinary issues? Is there any actual evidence that Marines are any more prone to misconduct than in the past? In fact, numbers of courts-martial have been declining for years.1 It’s likely only the media coverage of problems in the Marine Corps that has increased, creating a false impression of a wider pathology and not the problems themselves.

A small look at one of the many debates going on inside the Marine Corps.

Good job Cpl!

Sidenote:  The "Reawakening" is about the already made decision to put women into combat.  When it happens you will see the Marine Corps hemorrhage people.  Recruitment will sink and women who volunteer for it will be injured at an alarming rate.  Until power suits are part of issue gear you can't get around gender differences.