What is the one service specific vehicle that the USMC operates that is not duplicated in the other services?
If you said the AAV then you're right.
The Marine Corps operates (and has done so historically) vehicles and aircraft found in the US Navy or Army for generations. The old saying of Marines getting other services hand me downs comes from this tradition. A-4's? US Navy. M103 Heavy Tanks? Army. UH-1? First an Army program that was navalized for Marine Corps use.
The only vehicle that started out as a purely Marine Corps project to serve a specific Marine Corp need is the AAV.
Which makes the difficulty in fielding a replacement embarrassing AND frustrating. Defense Industry Daily covers the issue and you can read it here.
DID is one heck of a good site for all defence related news and even a little politics behind it all. Solomon, are you a full subscriber to that site ?
ReplyDeleteSol, BTW did you see SgtMaj Green of IMEF was selected to be next Sgt Maj of the Marine Corps?
ReplyDeleteyeah i did. i'm sure he's a good guy but i was cheering for a couple of other guys to win the job.
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