Basic Recovery After Attack training

U.S. Marines with the Damage Assessment Team assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 172 inspect for simulated runway damage while conducting a Basic Recovery After Attack (BRAAT) training event during a Marine Corps combat readiness evaluation (MCCRE) held by MWSS-172 on Ie Shima training facility, Okinawa, Japan, April 16, 2021. The MCCRE creates a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces capable of operating as a deployed unit at any time. 

Interesting.

Thought the EABOs would survive by not being detected. If so then this skill is irrelevant. 

If it is necessary then how the fuck are Marines gonna survive to repair an airfield after a Chinese bombardment? 

Additionally they might want to consider adding EOD to the mix. I bet those missiles will be followed up with missiles containing anti-personnel bomblets/mines.

The biggest winner in Berger's Folly?  The wing.  Missile artillery.  Logistics. The main problem?

The USMC will no longer be a warfighting organization.  It can't conduct amphibious assaults within the enemies engagement zone but it can LIVE there? Batshit crazy thinking.

This squiddie is my hero!

 

In the 1950s, a former sailor forged documents and spent years passing himself off as a USAF officer. He managed to go through jet training, get assigned to Bermuda as liaison to the Royal Navy, and become XO of Williams Air Force Base before being exposed. #SeaStorySaturday pic.twitter.com/DJADWuRow8

— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) April 24, 2021

I wish they would have attached a name. Whoever this bubba is, he's my hero! Love it!

6x6 Unmanned Surveillance Vehicle (USV) from Hanwha Defense

Story here.

1st Group Green Berets Train for Arctic Warfare

MWSS-172 MCCRE

Bird helping out with the rodent problem...

Birb helping out with the rat problem pic.twitter.com/CEjpptK0g7

— Men's Corner (@Mens_Corner_) April 16, 2021

Tu-22M3 with Kh-32 supersonic air-launched cruise missile with a range of 600–1000 km developed by the MKB Raduga

🇷🇺Tu-22M3 with her 3 " Babies " !!!
Kh-32 supersonic air-launched cruise missile with a range of 600–1000 km developed by the MKB Raduga pic.twitter.com/Zxd403sWvQ

— Sukhoi Su-57 Felon 🇷🇺🇮🇳 (@I30mki) April 23, 2021

Open Comment Post. 23 April 2021

Rheinmetall – New vehicle sneak preview

Mobile Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system

 

The @USArmy announced today the fielding and testing of the service's new Mobile Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system, designed to defend maneuvering forces against unmanned aircraft systems, rotary-wing and fixed-wing threats. #ForgeTheFuture https://t.co/SFy5Hvs1Zk pic.twitter.com/JmruuOarfG

— Army Futures Command (@armyfutures) April 23, 2021

The Army hands out AAM's like chips at a party...

 

Last night the Commander and I presented an AAM on the spot to a young Soldier who has only been out of AIT for about 30 days. She was a gunner shooting the M240 and .50cal throughout our training. Not once did her weapon systems have issues, and she was hitting every target.

— Jason Towns (@CSMTowns) April 23, 2021

Jesus big Army. JUST FUCKING STOP!

They hand out AAM's like chips at a party.  Award inflation is real.  I thought it was just officers that got that shit but it looks like at least in the Army it's spread.

Proposal.

You're only allowed to wear your top three and two skills badges.  After that you have to drag whoever to your "I love me wall" and measure your dick at home or in your office.

Rolling Thunder 21.1 HIMARS

Note. How do you honestly say that you're going to operate Expeditionary Advanced Bases INSIDE the enemy's engagement zone and expect to remain hidden during the "contest phase" (even though we can assume that the Chinese will have fishing boats scouring the oceans either trailing or trying to find Light Amphibious Ships as soon as they start sailing), operate aircraft from FARPs etc? EVEN IF they can survive then how do you prevent Chinese counter battery from obliterating those sites after a HIMARS launch during combat?  

What was that? 

They shoot and scoot? 

Bullshit. 

Every enemy sensor and eyeball will be hunting those forces and if they're not immediately found they'll be hunted down and destroyed. 

The reality is simple (it also goes to my belief that the USMC will crash below the 100K boatspace line). 

 ROGUE FIRES. 

HIMARS is a stand in system for a time when unmanned vehicles take over. If you don't need Marines to fire the rockets. If you don't need Marine Infantry to provide security to those rockets. Then you have part of this thing solved (still silly but it removes the problem of casualty evacuation).

Not only is Berger attempting to radically transform the Marine Corps into a force that is TOTALLY USELESS in any other clime and place, but it will be INCAPABLE of performing other missions that the nation expects of it (by 2030 if this plan goes forward we can expect the Army to have fully assumed all Marine Corps missions with the Corps totally focused on China, China, China...wait that's wrong...China in the Pacific, China in the Pacific, China in the Pacific).

If Berger is wrong then he's