Thursday, April 12, 2012
LCS will prevent future wars?
Hmmm.
Everytime I think I have a role figured out for the LCS, the Navy leadership utters a few words that makes me think we have idiots in charge.
Check out these tidbits from an AOL story...
Even the LCS contingent soon to start operating out of Singapore will focus on exercises, port visits, humanitarian assistance, and counter-piracy operations with Southeast Asian partners -- taking that burden off the more war-worthy carrier, cruisers, and destroyers based in Japan.and...
So while the LCS will be the Navy's most numerous future class, it won't be much of a warfighter. No less an authority than the Pentagon's independent Department of Operational Test & Evaluation has officially warned that "LCS is not expected to be survivable in a hostile combat environment." That's despite the Navy having significantly toughened survivability standards in the middle of building the first two vessels, retrofitting improvements at a major cost in time and money. All that work simply brought the LCS up from commercial survivability standards to what the Navy calls "Level I," equivalent to existing minesweepers, patrol boats, and supply ships, which are expected to last long enough for their crew to get out alive if the ship is damaged but not to keep on fighting after they take a hit. Destroyers and carriers, by contrast, are Level III.I mean seriously?
How is a ship with a max crew of what...75? Going to properly respond to a humanitarian assistance crisis? HA's require manpower, heavy equipment and helicopters...plenty of all 3. The LCS is limited in everyone of those categories.
How is so small a ship with limited firepower and armor going to even handle the primitive pirates operating around the world...pirates that will have RPG's and Assault Rifles?
I seriously wonder if our current military and political leadership actually believe some of the nonsense they spout. And to think...I just gave them credit for knowing how to play the politics game.
Never Forget.
Photos by Sgt. Michael Cifuentes
Surface Navy learns to play politics.
via FoxNews.
They learned the lesson well. Check out all the buzz words in the CNO's remarks...Stealth...Incredible sonar and strike capability...lower manning requirements....
Every high tech junkie from here to Bejing must be going nuts at the very thought.
Its good to see the Navy finally getting the hint on how to market its capabilities. A nice start....a little late, but better late than never.
"With its stealth, incredibly capable sonar system, strike capability and lower manning requirements -- this is our future," concluded Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, who gave the warship his endorsement on a visit last week to Bath Iron Works, where the ships are being built.Wow.
They learned the lesson well. Check out all the buzz words in the CNO's remarks...Stealth...Incredible sonar and strike capability...lower manning requirements....
Its good to see the Navy finally getting the hint on how to market its capabilities. A nice start....a little late, but better late than never.
11th MEU. LAV Platoon.
Photos by Sgt. Elyssa Quesada
11th MEU. Weapon Drills.
All photos by Cpl. Tommy Huynh
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
FUCK! 2 Marines killed in MV-22 crash at African Lion 12.
Thanks Think Defence for the heads up....wish it were better news.
via Marine Corps Times.
You know every family member on the aviation side of the 24th MEU is going crazy.
God Bless.
via Marine Corps Times.
An MV-22 Osprey from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit crashed Wednesday during training exercises in Morocco, according to a Marine official. An official at the U.S. Embassy in Morocco said two Marines were killed in the crash, and two more were injured.I hate this.
The crash took place in southern Morocco during exercises involving Marines and Moroccan troops, embassy spokesman Rodney Ford said. The 24th MEU is participating in Exercise African Lion, a 10-day joint exercise overseen by the 14th Marine Regiment.
Agence France-Presse reported that the crash took place in the region of Ouad Daraa, about 550 miles from Rabat.
The 24th MEU deployed from Camp Lejeune, N.C., on March 29. The Osprey was part of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced), out of Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C.
Further information about the incident is being withheld until the next of kin have been notified, Ford said.
You know every family member on the aviation side of the 24th MEU is going crazy.
God Bless.
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