Tuesday, May 04, 2021
HMS Tamar sports "dazzle" camo scheme...
What a lovely morning with @hms_tamar with her dazzle camouflage and lions 🦁 roaring out of Falmouth @ForcesNews pic.twitter.com/9FYTs47Pvy
— briohny (@justbriohny) May 4, 2021
AH-1Z Viper helicopter with HMLA-367 conducts a training flight exercise...America's STAND IN FORCE at work...
An AH-1Z Viper helicopter with HMLA-367 conducts a training flight exercise, @MCB_Hawaii in concert with #Marines from VMM-268 and U.S. Navy Sailors with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37 to rehearse sea-denial operational scenarios.#FightNow#FreeAndOpenIndoPacific pic.twitter.com/Z0SSl2S2CV
— 1st MAW Marines (@1stMAW_Marines) May 1, 2021
Army Twitter is engaging on the Navy/Marine Corps argument about China...
The Navy dudes frame every argument around war with China because it’s literally the only scenario that centers the Navy and only the Navy. They ignore every other adversary so hard I’m starting to wonder if Russian think tanks are paying them. pic.twitter.com/wUmiCClYIj
— Cav, Friend to the Birbs (@CombatCavScout) May 2, 2021
Wow.
This is interesting.
I've always be in the camp that war is probably inevitable (with China) but I just don't see it happening in the Pacific. If that was the case then why would China be building an expeditionary capability into it's Navy?
I see them taking the fight elsewhere.
Army Twitter is engaging (I think) because they see the budget fight that's coming. I believe they're right because the fight will be in a place the Navy/Marines don't want it.
3/3 Conducts Air Assault
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| U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Carson McLeod, a machine gunner with, 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, applies camouflage paint prior to conducting an air assault on Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, April 27, 2021. 3/3 increased their proficiency in distributed operations, while demonstrating their ability to quickly secure and defend key maritime terrain in the Indo-Pacific region. 3/3 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. |
Force in readiness? Spare me. It's becoming totally a STAND IN FORCE!
Canadian Army Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) variant
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| We celebrated the official “roll-out” of the first Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) variant -- a Troop Cargo Vehicle (TCV) -- virtually today with Defence Minister @harjitsajjan. Light Armoured Vehicles have protected Canada’s Soldiers on missions abroad for more than 40 years, and it is a privilege for General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to continue innovating for the @canadianarmy. 🇨🇦 |
Latest iteration of M1 Abrams main battle tank wraps up testing at U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center
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| Since testing at U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center, the Department of Defense’s lone extreme cold natural environment testing facility, began in January 2020, the M1A2 System Enhancement Package version 3 main battle tank was driven more than 2,000 miles in rugged conditions across three seasons of sub-Arctic weather, fired hundreds of rounds for accuracy in extreme cold, and underwent testing of its auxiliary power unit. Though the platform was extensively tested at U.S. Army Yuma Test Center prior to being put through its paces in Alaska, the sub-zero temperatures brought forth glitches that would have been unimaginable in the desert. |
Interesting. The US Army is operating in every clime and place while the Marines are being relegated to ONE REGION, ONE FOE and EXTREME SPECIALIZATION.
This is the difference between an organization that is primed for the future and another that will be doomed to the dust heap of history, not because of its members, but because of misguided belief by leadership to predict the future. The reality? We're in the INTERWAR period between WW1 and WW2.
Tech is advancing at such a pace that no one is quite sure what will be the winning formula. How many times have we seen "early adopters" end up with dead end products? Worse? Even if they were right the products that they bought was still born and a generation out of step because they rushed instead of waited? Read between the lines on that one!
Unbelievable! Even a tragedy is used to push an agenda in the Marines!
via Defense One.
US Marines May Have Lost Their ‘Amphibious Edge,’ Leaders Say
Top Marines tell Congress that after deadly AAV accident and years in Middle East, the Corps and its vehicles are unprepared for waterborne operations.
That's the title and subheading. Clickbait for sure cause I latched onto it like a shark on a baby seal. Boy did they suck me in!
Beyond the questionable maintenance of the AAVs, prior investigations have revealed that personnel involved in the accident were also not prepared for the training exercise. Many of the Marines had not completed training designed to teach them how to escape from a submerged vehicle. Swim and water qualifications were not current. When the AAV began to sink on July 30, the lack of adequate training coupled with the vehicle’s maintenance shortcomings proved fatal.
Testimony revealed that after decades in the Middle East, neither the Marine Corps’s vehicles nor its troops are prepared for waterborne operations.
“It may have been that the twenty years of landborne operations have caused us to lose some of our amphibious edge,” Olson told Congress on Monday.
That amphibious edge is a major factor in the Marine Corps of the future—where maritime operations will reign. Berger’s Force Design 2030 report claims the Corps is trudging ahead on dramatically transforming into a maritime force capable of multi-domain operations, fully equipped with amphibious ships and alternative platforms. Berger’s vision for the future of the Marines is to “create a true naval expeditionary stand-in-force and
force-in-readiness.”(SNAFU! had to fix that for Defense One...the Marines are NO LONGER a force in readiness).
Do you see this trash?
This is simple and has nothing to do with "losing an amphibious edge".
This is about FUNDING, TRAINING, PRIORITIES and LEADERSHIP!
We'll smash this trash later (gotta get out and get some stuff done today...I'm off and off days are valuable!) but you guys give me your thoughts. Oh and if you haven't check out the tick tock of events that led up to this cluster.
These Marines DID NOT HAVE TO DIE!
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