The 30 month snapshot of history is a superb example of USMC versatility. Not one of these operations had been predicted six months before they occurred and some “popped up” in days. This is what a force in readiness does. Gen Berger unilaterally and secretly decided these capabilities were no longer required. He did not just decide he needed a new capability but destroyed all others in favor of a response that might never be called on and if called could not execute. That is amazing in and of itself. That it was not summarily dismissed and reversed within days is incomprehensible. That it continues to limp along without a chance of being funded on the weaponry being developed. Real world combat developments over the last two years have demonstrated that virtually every founding concept of FD-2030 is bankrupt. The current CMC has not been filling the requirements of his billet for four months without some transparency one questions if he is even capable of managing the stresses of the billet. At some point the red lights and alarms must go off.
Spot on! Consider the unlimited hubris to make such a decision. The unmitigated gall of such an individual is almost impossible to comprehend. Then to walk away living America w a “leaky bag of shit” is the sign of a sociopathic mind.
People like General Berger have become enamored with special operations because that is all they know and those operations require limited weaponry and are easy to plan and execute. Their experience, education and mindset has become warped by long periods fighting people with limited resources and ability.
Combined operations require dedication and knowledge of weapons, logistics, planning, communications and tactics. Training has to be continuous, under adverse conditions and terrain. Infantry officers who cannot integrate and employ every weapon in the inventory and communicate that knowledge to their troops are unprofessional and useless. They are not Marines. Semper Fi
Simply put, General Berger and his FD 2030 have prevented the Marine Corps from conducting its primary mission: being a combined arms naval expeditionary force in readiness.
I just sent this on X to my US Congressman Chip Roy DISTRICT 21 TEXAS , he was opining on the IDF plan to replace some of their rifles…”Many of them are the Tavor ………I have spotted a variety of US Made small arms….its 155mm rounds that must be speed up. US pushed massive quantities to Ukraine. The NDAA HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR ANSWERS ON USMC FORCE DESIGN…, A UNILATERAL UNTESTED CONCEPT FOISTED ON THE CORPS BY CMC BERGER….THE CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED ANSWERS ARE L A T E! The USMC COMMANDANT IS “Not fit for duty”because of heart surgery! USMC HAS BEEN W/O A CMC FOR 4 MONTHS. USMC MAGTF’S WERE DESTROYED BY FORCE DESIGN. AMERICA’S 911 FORCE HAS BEEN DESTROYED. PLS TAKE A LOOK. MARINE CORPS COMPASS CALL ON SUBSTACK HAS THE DETAILS. DEI HAS INFECTED THE CORPS…PLS CK READ BELOW. Female 1 STAR COMMANDS/DIRECTS MARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY ! SHE DID NOT ATTEND A WAR COLLEGE…BUT WENT TO “US INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND STUDIED WOMEN’S PEACE AND SECURITY’! SHE HAS BLOCKED THE FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF MCU FROM SPEAKING. WE HAVE NO AMPHIBS, ARTY, ENGINEERS, MPS, SNIPERS, TANKS ETC ETC…ITS SIMILAR TO TRAVIS AT THE ALAMO! 🆘 SOS!.
“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company, we need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here and we are swept by machine gun fire and constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left, and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD.” 1st Lt. Clifton Cates
“I call on all Marines to in step and so smartly.” “If I see a fat Marine he’s got a problem, and so does his commanding officers.” General Louis Wilson.
One could go on and on. We should be skeptical of the special operations siren song, so popular with the politicians because it seemingly absolves them of real accountability for life and death decisions. As a young infantry officer in the 2nd MarDiv, it was easy to dislike the reconnaissance battalion and to a degree the Force Recon Company. Company sized, battalion sized, regiment sized operations being organized to get everyone to the head is difficult, the small specialized units in the day never had the complication of different levels of ability, fitness, mental acuity, Marines in a unit getting close to their EAS, aka “getting short.” Etc., etc. But it never left the mind that given the resources and time to train, that the straight leg infantry company could be very facile at all manner of “special operations.” Kilo Company 3/2 crossed the New River at night in inflatable boats small, in the summer of 1979. Talk about a risky evolution. Except it wasn’t, because they trained hard for it.
Lastly, if General Smith truly believes “that being a Marine is bonus enough.” Than he should walk the walk and retire. Lead by example. But dimes against doughnuts he will will hobble back to the oldest standing structure in Washington,DC, and attempt to finish the work of General Berger. Well, he may sit behind the CMC desk, it is our job to stop the madness, they want an MLR, we we are the MLR, we are the Stand In Force, come and get it, only by the way most feel here, we will no longer sit in the defense, rather go on the offense and challenge every FD2030 pile of horse bucky that rolls out of the puzzle palace. Well good luck to them, “WE WILL HOLD.”
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing, what the Hell is going on?” General John Vessey, Jr. On the status of progress during Operation Urgent Fury. Exactly.
I just read in Marine Times that the Marine Corps will deactivate the 5th Bn, 11th Marines. This is a HIMARS Bn. In its place, there will be an anti-ship missile unit. So it goes....
The 30 month snapshot of history is a superb example of USMC versatility. Not one of these operations had been predicted six months before they occurred and some “popped up” in days. This is what a force in readiness does. Gen Berger unilaterally and secretly decided these capabilities were no longer required. He did not just decide he needed a new capability but destroyed all others in favor of a response that might never be called on and if called could not execute. That is amazing in and of itself. That it was not summarily dismissed and reversed within days is incomprehensible. That it continues to limp along without a chance of being funded on the weaponry being developed. Real world combat developments over the last two years have demonstrated that virtually every founding concept of FD-2030 is bankrupt. The current CMC has not been filling the requirements of his billet for four months without some transparency one questions if he is even capable of managing the stresses of the billet. At some point the red lights and alarms must go off.
Spot on! Consider the unlimited hubris to make such a decision. The unmitigated gall of such an individual is almost impossible to comprehend. Then to walk away living America w a “leaky bag of shit” is the sign of a sociopathic mind.
People like General Berger have become enamored with special operations because that is all they know and those operations require limited weaponry and are easy to plan and execute. Their experience, education and mindset has become warped by long periods fighting people with limited resources and ability.
Combined operations require dedication and knowledge of weapons, logistics, planning, communications and tactics. Training has to be continuous, under adverse conditions and terrain. Infantry officers who cannot integrate and employ every weapon in the inventory and communicate that knowledge to their troops are unprofessional and useless. They are not Marines. Semper Fi
Simply put, General Berger and his FD 2030 have prevented the Marine Corps from conducting its primary mission: being a combined arms naval expeditionary force in readiness.
I just sent this on X to my US Congressman Chip Roy DISTRICT 21 TEXAS , he was opining on the IDF plan to replace some of their rifles…”Many of them are the Tavor ………I have spotted a variety of US Made small arms….its 155mm rounds that must be speed up. US pushed massive quantities to Ukraine. The NDAA HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR ANSWERS ON USMC FORCE DESIGN…, A UNILATERAL UNTESTED CONCEPT FOISTED ON THE CORPS BY CMC BERGER….THE CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED ANSWERS ARE L A T E! The USMC COMMANDANT IS “Not fit for duty”because of heart surgery! USMC HAS BEEN W/O A CMC FOR 4 MONTHS. USMC MAGTF’S WERE DESTROYED BY FORCE DESIGN. AMERICA’S 911 FORCE HAS BEEN DESTROYED. PLS TAKE A LOOK. MARINE CORPS COMPASS CALL ON SUBSTACK HAS THE DETAILS. DEI HAS INFECTED THE CORPS…PLS CK READ BELOW. Female 1 STAR COMMANDS/DIRECTS MARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY ! SHE DID NOT ATTEND A WAR COLLEGE…BUT WENT TO “US INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND STUDIED WOMEN’S PEACE AND SECURITY’! SHE HAS BLOCKED THE FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF MCU FROM SPEAKING. WE HAVE NO AMPHIBS, ARTY, ENGINEERS, MPS, SNIPERS, TANKS ETC ETC…ITS SIMILAR TO TRAVIS AT THE ALAMO! 🆘 SOS!.
“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company, we need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here and we are swept by machine gun fire and constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left, and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD.” 1st Lt. Clifton Cates
“I call on all Marines to in step and so smartly.” “If I see a fat Marine he’s got a problem, and so does his commanding officers.” General Louis Wilson.
One could go on and on. We should be skeptical of the special operations siren song, so popular with the politicians because it seemingly absolves them of real accountability for life and death decisions. As a young infantry officer in the 2nd MarDiv, it was easy to dislike the reconnaissance battalion and to a degree the Force Recon Company. Company sized, battalion sized, regiment sized operations being organized to get everyone to the head is difficult, the small specialized units in the day never had the complication of different levels of ability, fitness, mental acuity, Marines in a unit getting close to their EAS, aka “getting short.” Etc., etc. But it never left the mind that given the resources and time to train, that the straight leg infantry company could be very facile at all manner of “special operations.” Kilo Company 3/2 crossed the New River at night in inflatable boats small, in the summer of 1979. Talk about a risky evolution. Except it wasn’t, because they trained hard for it.
Lastly, if General Smith truly believes “that being a Marine is bonus enough.” Than he should walk the walk and retire. Lead by example. But dimes against doughnuts he will will hobble back to the oldest standing structure in Washington,DC, and attempt to finish the work of General Berger. Well, he may sit behind the CMC desk, it is our job to stop the madness, they want an MLR, we we are the MLR, we are the Stand In Force, come and get it, only by the way most feel here, we will no longer sit in the defense, rather go on the offense and challenge every FD2030 pile of horse bucky that rolls out of the puzzle palace. Well good luck to them, “WE WILL HOLD.”
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing, what the Hell is going on?” General John Vessey, Jr. On the status of progress during Operation Urgent Fury. Exactly.
I just read in Marine Times that the Marine Corps will deactivate the 5th Bn, 11th Marines. This is a HIMARS Bn. In its place, there will be an anti-ship missile unit. So it goes....
Idiocy!
Apparently CMC Smith reads Compass Points…he RETURNED to FULL DUTY! To Further Destroy the MAGTF.