WHISKEY Multi Mission Reconnaissance Craft

 

*Note.  Many errors in my rant.  Do as usual and read between the lines to make it make sense. Ain't got time.*

Ya know what many don't realize?

I tried mightily to make Force Design 2030 make sense.  I asked some of the so called experts, the people that helped design this thing over on X, to explain it to me.  

I gave this thing the benefit of the doubt even though every cell in my body screamed that this abomination is batshit crazy.

I tried and I failed.

Not only has it stripped the Marine Corps of its combat power but its also placed the Corps in a terrible spot that will take a decade to recover from.

If I asked you today what is the Marine Corps, what would your answer be?  It better not be masters of amphibious assault.  We've had a series of Commandant's tell us that its no longer possible.  It better not be a forward deployed force in readiness.  Recent history has shown us otherwise.

What has Force Design 2030 relegated the Marine Corps to?

At best its gonna be a stand in force.  Make no mistake what that ACTUALLY means.  You strip away all the professor talk, all the Pentagon bullshit and what it really means is that you're gonna have small groups of Marines FORWARD so that they can die a horrible death that will spun to some kind of heroism, and by their deaths they will act as a tripwire that will galvanize the American public to go to war over Taiwan.

FULL STOP!  That's it in a nutshell.

That's what its all about.  That's why the Congress Critters are all in favor of it.  That's why the Navy is placating the Marines with the promise of that useless landing craft while they prep to do the real fighting.  That's why the US Army is prepping to actually engage Chinese ships from shore.  They all know that once the real fighting starts the 3rd Littoral Regiment will be micro fragmented and feeding the wildlife in the ocean.

But back on task.

Make this concept make sense.  I mean that boat is nice. I imagine its even fun to ride in.  But why would you use a waterborne craft for the maritime recon mission?  UAVs will be much more useful, as survival goes much more survivable and the best thing?  You won't have to risk Marines to find out where that anti-air destroyer is lurking off the coast.  Instead use lose a piece of replaceable machinery.

Is this still the Marine Corps or a coastal defense force?