Posted on May 11, 2021
Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific - USNI News
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After 20 years of counterinsurgency and low-end conflict in the Middle East, the Marines are rapidly retooling for a different kind of fight.
As the service has shed legacy equipment like tanks and heavy artillery to reshape itself into a mobile, Pacific island-hopping force, it’s retooling how it trains the Marines of the future to fit into a more complex way of war while reinforcing its creed of “every Marine a rifleman.”
This week, the School of Infantry-West at Camp Pendleton, Calif., graduates the first three platoons to complete a redesigned Infantry Marine Course. The proposed longer entry-level training program will prepare infantry squads to operate against peer adversaries and high-tech threats in dispersed, littoral environments – in line with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s focus on preparing the service in 2030. The future battlefield could be across a large area of small atolls and isles that require forces to operate in small, dispersed units, but be capable of executing command-driven orders and react independently as needed, as was the case during World War II’s Pacific islands campaign.
As the service has shed legacy equipment like tanks and heavy artillery to reshape itself into a mobile, Pacific island-hopping force, it’s retooling how it trains the Marines of the future to fit into a more complex way of war while reinforcing its creed of “every Marine a rifleman.”
This week, the School of Infantry-West at Camp Pendleton, Calif., graduates the first three platoons to complete a redesigned Infantry Marine Course. The proposed longer entry-level training program will prepare infantry squads to operate against peer adversaries and high-tech threats in dispersed, littoral environments – in line with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s focus on preparing the service in 2030. The future battlefield could be across a large area of small atolls and isles that require forces to operate in small, dispersed units, but be capable of executing command-driven orders and react independently as needed, as was the case during World War II’s Pacific islands campaign.
Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific - USNI News
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
GySgt Thomas Vick God Bless the Marines of 2nd MARDIV, God Bless the Marines of the Radio Battalions, God Bless the Marines of the Naval Security Group. My Family. In Many Ways.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
GySgt Thomas Vick Of Course God Bless Gunny Stogner! My Blood Kin and Fellow Spook.
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GySgt Thomas Vick
God bless all of our warriors, especially Marines, and spooks! Couldn't get the real job done without the info.
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I am an avid visiter to the World War 1 battlefield Memorial Day ceremonies at Bellow Wood outside of Paris. In my conversations with career young Marine leaders at the time it became clear to me the Marine Corps will change like it or not into a smaller more Naval oriented amphibious force focused, and lethal. For me this is good news. Good news for the country and good news for the whole US military. An asset the Marine Corps holds is it is the keeper of military tradition, and battle leadership that was threatened to be lost in the effort into making the military corporate. This since WW 2. Corporate I mean in the process of modernizing the military with new weapons systems was the danger leaders who acted like business leaders instead of warrior.
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