31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conducts amphibious assault at Talisman Sabre 2011 --the video

AF-8 Ferry to Eglin AFB

Lockheed Martin delivers second F-35 production jet in a week. It was wheels up Wednesday morning for Lockheed Martin’s second F-35A Lightning II production jet delivery in a week. Maj. Joseph T. “OD” Bachmann (Marine Corps) piloted the aircraft, known as AF-8, to Eglin Air Force Base where it arrived at 11:50 a.m. CDT. On July 20

Sad, Pathetic, Disgraceful. Spin the bullshit Major...Spin!

Instead of crushing the nonsense, HQMC turned a blind eye and now its a full blown disgrace.  Read this story and check out the vid below.

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Who do I blame.

1.  Battle Rattle Blog.  They started this stupidity by highlighting this craziness.  Kids stuff being pushed by kids.  Disgraceful.

2.  SgtMajor of the Marine Corps.  You'd have to be blind, deaf and mute not to see this coming.  You weren't proactive.  Now we have a stupid stain running down the pants leg of our Corps.

3.  HQMC Social Networking Outfit/Public Affairs.  You're in a military outfit, ya bunch of clowns.  You're not at Google or Vogue or whatever your favorite magazine, TV show etc...  You tried to be cool and its instead made you look inept.

The horse has left the barn.  Lets not be this stupid again.

Australian Army Amphibious Road Map.

Phil!  Awesome find!  Thanks!

My bud, Aussie Digger, shot down my assertion that the Australians needed to develop a Marine Corps.  He made some good points, primarily that the force structure was too small to support the number of troops needed to man the planned amphibious ships that Australia was purchasing.

Well it looks like we both were wrong.  This Australian Road Map document points to the Australian Army becoming a type of hybrid force.  More Marine than traditional Army, and waaaay more amphibious than even the Army leadership could imagine.

I like it.

Australian Army Amphibious Road Map

F-35 Eglin Arrival Highlights

More pics of the 31st MEU's amphibious assault during Talisman Sabre.

Amphibious assault vehicles carrying Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, secure Freshwater Beach in an amphibious assault during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:44:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

An amphibious assault vehicle carrying elements of Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, charges onto Freshwater Beach in an amphibious assault during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:34:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

Marines with Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Expeditionary Unit, rush out of an amphibious assault vehicle to secure Freshwater Beach during the amphibious assault in support of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:35:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

An amphibious assault vehicle carrying elements of Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, charges onto Freshwater Beach in an amphibious assault during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:34:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

Amphibious assault vehicles carrying Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, secure Freshwater Beach during an amphibious assault in support of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:34:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

Marines with Company G., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Expeditionary Unit, secure Freshwater Beach during the amphibious assault in support of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. TS11 provides an opportunity to conduct operations in a combined and joint environment that will increase both countries’ bilateral war-fighting capabilities to respond to crises and provide humanitarian assistance. This exercise will increase interoperability, flexibility, and readiness, all of which are force multipliers in maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific.
Photo Date Taken: 7/19/2011 8:36:00 AM
Unit: 31st MEU
Photo ByLine: Lance Cpl. Garry J. Welch

501st Parachute Infantry Regiment gets a piece of Talisman Saber 2011.

All Photos by Master Sgt. Michele Desrochers 

U.S. soldiers of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, parachute out of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011 July 17, 2011. Talisman Sabre 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.

Members of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, move out of a drop zone and set up a security perimeter after parachuting out of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Talisman Saber 2011, July 17. Talisman Saber 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.

A U.S. Army soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, moves out of the drop zone after parachuting from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Shoalwater Bay Training Area during exercise Talisman Saber 2011, July 17. Talisman Saber 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.

U.S. Army Sgt. Eugene Baca from Geronimo, Okla., with 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, moves out of the drop zone after parachuting from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during exercise Talisman Saber 2011, July 17. Talisman Saber 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.

U.S. soldiers with 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, move out of the drop zone and set up a security perimeter after parachuting from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Talisman Saber 2011, July 17. Talisman Saber 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.

U.S. soldiers of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, parachute out of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011 July 17, 2011. Talisman Sabre 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct Combined Task Force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.