Mobile training team evaluates scout platoon Marines

 

A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, mans an observation post during a scout platoon training course aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, March 29, 2023. A mobile training team from Weapons Training Battalion and the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab evaluated the Marines on their ability to integrate reconnaissance and surveillance tactics, techniques, and procedures into battalion operations as part of Infantry Battalion Experiment 2030. (U.S. Marine Corps courtesy photo)

Hell they might do better to just add another suicide drone platoon. This will be a downgrade in capabilities but the outcome is already baked in.

The report will say that the scout platoon is as effective if not MORE effective than the legacy Scout Sniper Platoon.

This shit is so scripted it doesn't even make sense to keep up with the changes.  Experimentation my ass.

WTI 2-23: CH-53 Battle Drills

 

Royal Air Force CH-47 Chinook helicopter assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), participates in a battle drill exercise during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 2-23, at Landing Zone Bull, near Chocolate Mountains, California, April 1, 2023. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS-1, providing standardized advanced tactical training and certification of unit instructor qualification to support Marine aviation training and readiness, and assist in developing and employing aviation weapons and tactics. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dakota Hungerford)

II Marine Expeditionary Force, Expeditionary Operations Training Group (EOTG) conduct Fast Ropes Master Course (FRMC) with 26th MEU

*Didn't EOTG come out of the old initiative when MEU(SOC) was roaming the seas? If not then where did the come from and when did they come to be?

Open Comment Post. 5 Apr 23

French President Macron said that China has a major role to play in finding a path to peace in Ukraine.

 

#UPDATE French President Emmanuel Macron said that China had a "major role" to play in finding a path to peace in Ukraine, as he kicked off a three-day visit to Beijing.https://t.co/yD61r8Mw8C

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 5, 2023

So should the US, but for some reason we haven't even put a proposal on the table. NONE..not even one that would be rejected out of hand. Time to stop listening to the mob and to turn this war off.

Remember this simple fact about contested logistics. If they can't get supplies in, then they won't be able to get our wounded out...

The Future of Marine Corps Logistics

We can expect to be contested by future adversaries on the battlefield all the way to our industrial base - to sustain our forces on the front lines, we must modernize our logistics enterprise. @3rdMLG keeps us ready in the Indo-Pacific. pic.twitter.com/gyKFkyHlg3

— III MEF Marines (@IIIMEF) April 5, 2023

They keep talking logistics.

What's left unsaid is that if logistics is "hard" and they don't have the capability now, then they don't have the capability to get our wounded out.

These stealthy, low signature, STAND IN FORCE, recon/counter recon, missile shooting, and coast watching Marines will die ugly and not just from enemy action.

Accidents happen in the field.  Weird disease happens in the jungle. Critters of all types take bites out of humans in the jungle.  The list goes on.

Logistics?  Yeah its important but since actually identifying what the MLR is actually supposed to do in the modern era (except act as speed bumps to China and guarantee that any action against them ensures we're in full scale war) is beyond me, I'm focused on the ignored aspect of all of this.

The concept as it currently stands means the Golden Hour is dead.

It means that injuries that were survivable during the war on terror will not be with this force.

Marines dying ugly?  

When all is said and done that might turn out to be a fucked up mercy.

Pearson Eng portfolio of Engineer/Assault Breacher/Pioneer equipment on various wheeled/tracked vehicles...

Polish Armor On Exercise (South Korean/Poland joint venture K2 MBT & K9 SPG)

 

Russians prepare for Ukrainian offensive to retake Crimea?

 

Also noticing more Russian Telegram channels are now calling for construction of fortifications along the entire line of contact in preparation for a Ukrainian offensive... https://t.co/6pCVyV9u1j

— Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) April 4, 2023

Interesting.

What do you think the Russians will do if the Ukrainians try and retake Crimea?

My opinion?  Tactical nukes will be in play.  I hope the powers that be have a leash on Zelensky.

France conducts its largest military exercise in decades, Orion 23, with NATO forces (mastersubs)

 

 

France is hosting its biggest military exercise in decades, with NATO Allies. Exercise Orion involves up to 19,000 personnel in total and assets from eight NATO Allies including host nation France, and focuses on defensive operations on land, in the air, at sea and in cyberspace.
Synopsis
France has launched its biggest military exercise in decades, together with its NATO Allies. The second phase of Exercise Orion 23 involves 7,000 personnel and assets from France and several Allied countries, including Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, and focuses on defensive operations on land, in the air, at sea and in cyberspace.
The drills are conducted over several months, starting in late February and ending in May 2023. The peak of the exercise is scheduled from late April to early May, in north-eastern France. During this phase, around 12,000 troops will be deployed on the ground and in the skies to repel a simulated high-intensity attack.
Transcript
--SOUNDBITE (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBS)—
Captain Thibault, 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment

“It’s a bit like a rugby or football team. Attack and defence have to work together.”

--TEXT ON SCREEN--

IN FRANCE’S
BIGGEST EXERCISE
IN DECADES

UP TO 19,000 NATO TROOPS

ARE PUTTING THEIR
COLLECTIVE DEFENCE
SKILLS TO THE TEST

--SOUNDBITE (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBS)—
Captain Thibault, 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment

“The advantage of these exercises is that they mobilise the three armies: air, sea and land forces. Little by little we increase the training requirements until we all work together.”

--TEXT ON SCREEN--
DRILLS LIKE THESE
ARE ESSENTIAL

TO MAKE SURE NATO
IS READY

TO DEFEND
EVERY INCH OF ALLIED TERRITORY

AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL
ATTACK

Hmm.  I wonder why the powers that be felt a need to alarm European citizens that Russia was gonna attack a NATO country?

From my chair that was nowhere in the cards but yet here we are.

Why?

Next I have to wonder how we would stack up our NATO allies.  Poland is in my opinion the most powerful ground force now but they're obsessed with the Russians.  France I believe has the best balanced force and is truly capable of worldwide operations...limited ops but worldwide.  The UK?  Not sure anymore.  Their Army appears to be in shambles but they have excellent infantry.  Their airborne, Marines and SAS/SBS are top notch.  Their Navy?  Not sure.  The others all have niche forces that are capable, some extremely capable in certain areas.

Then we have Germany.

The US protects Europe and Europe protects Germany.

Forgot about Italy.  They also have a well balanced force I would think is second to France in the EU.  Weird setup for their Marines/Amphibious Army but again they're capable.