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| VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Jan. 25, 2012) Landing Craft Air-Cushion (LCAC) 53 speeds from the French navy projection and command ship FS Mistral (L9013) to the shoreline during a well deck certification. Mistral will participate in Exercise Bold Alligator 2012, the largest naval amphibious exercise in the past 10 years. The exercise will take place Jan. 30 through Feb. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael M. Scichilone/Released) 120125-N-CG436-056 |
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Pic of the day. Mistral during LCAC certification.
JLTV? The Marine Corps is getting screwed!
The US Army is applying the big green d*ck to the Marine Corps. How? Well check out these two articles...the first from Marine Corps Times...
“If it comes in at the weight where it is right now, the Marine Corps simply cannot get involved [and] will not buy a joint light tactical vehicle that’s 20,000 pounds,” Conway said. “It doesn’t fit our expeditionary kind of capacity. We can’t carry it on our helicopters or even sling it.And then this from AOL Defense...
“So, depending on what the evolution of the development looks like, we may have to depart ourselves from that buy and again [rehabilitate] what we’ve got to take us into the next decade.”
Senior service leaders, including Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, have repeatedly stated JLTV is the future of the Army's tactical vehicle fleet. The Army already decided to ramp down the MECV program -- from 50,000 to 100,000 vehicles down to roughly 6,000 for air assault ops -- to make way for the JLTV's entrance into the fleet. In 2010, service officials attempted to cancel the MECV program, until Capitol Hill forced the Army to pull it off the budget chopping block.The closest Army units that match the Marine Corps when it comes to being expeditionary in nature are the 82nd Airborne and 101st Air Assault.
To think that the Army is going to forgo JLTV for those formations (Airborne/Air Assault) and attempt to push the JLTV on the Marine Corps is telling.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
He likes it!
Just watching and reading the latest on the Navy SEAL rescue of the hostages in Africa...
I watched the coverage of the President by Chris Mathews on MSNBC and now I'm getting a bit concerned.
The press is fawning over the President's decision...Mathews is going bonkers over a clip in which the President is congratulating the SecDef telling him "good job."
And we have a Commander in Chief that has no experience with the military -- and he has just been successful on two high risk military operations.
DON'T GET ME WRONG...I'M EXTREMELY PLEASED THAT THESE OPERATIONS WERE SUCCESSFUL!
What concerns me is that this type of success can lead to the type of over confidence that will lead to tragedy. Somewhere, someone is thinking about laying a trap for our guys. Somewhere, someone is going to try for another BlackHawk down incident.
If a blogger in the backwoods can consider that possibility then I hope someone at SOCOM is considering it too.
And I hope SOCOM has someone with the balls to say no, when they're asked to cross a bridge too far.
I watched the coverage of the President by Chris Mathews on MSNBC and now I'm getting a bit concerned.
The press is fawning over the President's decision...Mathews is going bonkers over a clip in which the President is congratulating the SecDef telling him "good job."
And we have a Commander in Chief that has no experience with the military -- and he has just been successful on two high risk military operations.
DON'T GET ME WRONG...I'M EXTREMELY PLEASED THAT THESE OPERATIONS WERE SUCCESSFUL!
What concerns me is that this type of success can lead to the type of over confidence that will lead to tragedy. Somewhere, someone is thinking about laying a trap for our guys. Somewhere, someone is going to try for another BlackHawk down incident.
If a blogger in the backwoods can consider that possibility then I hope someone at SOCOM is considering it too.
And I hope SOCOM has someone with the balls to say no, when they're asked to cross a bridge too far.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
VMM-365
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| MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -Marines from Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Squadron 365 fly 8 MV-22B Ospreys in an echelon right
formation on their way back to Marine Corps Air Station New River, Dec.
29. These eight Ospreys were some of the last aircraft to be tested out
before the squadron goes on their deployment to Afghanistan. , Lance Cpl. Martin R. Egnash, 12/29/2011 5:48 |
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| MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -Marines from Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Squadron 365 fly an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Corps Air
Station New River toward Wilmington, N.C. This was part of the
squadron’s last flight before their deployment in early January and
their last flight of 2011, Dec. 29. , Lance Cpl. Martin R. Egnash, 12/29/2011 5:46 |
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| MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -Marines from Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Squadron 365 fly an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Corps Air
Station New River toward Wilmington N.C. This was part of the squadron’s
last flight before their deployment in early January and their last
flight of 2011, Dec. 29. , Lance Cpl. Martin R. Egnash, 12/29/2011 5:40 |
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| MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -Marines from Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Squadron 365 land MV-22B Ospreys at Marine Corps Air Station
New River, Dec. 29. This concludes the last flight of the year for the
Marines flying eight Ospreys. , Lance Cpl. Martin R. Egnash, 12/29/2011 5:55 |
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| MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -Marines From Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 refuel before their last flight before their deployment early January, and their last flight of the year, Dec. 29. The flight consisted of 28 Marines flying eight MV-22B Ospreys in designated formations to a landing zone and back. , Lance Cpl. Martin R. Egnash, 12/29/2011 5:02 |
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