Marine Corps reveals new details about future force structure
By: Jeff Schogol, February 28, 2017 (Photo Credit: Cpl. Andrew Kuppers, USMC)
The Marine Corps has revealed more about what types of Marines it hopes to add as part of an ambitious plan to fight future wars — but new signs of Washington gridlock may scrap the goal of growing to at least 194,000 active-duty Marines.
Marine Corps Force 2025, a yearlong force structure review, has identified areas where the Corps needs to add Marines, regardless of whether the service gets bigger, said Corps spokesman Maj. Clark Carpenter.
“This may require further growth in areas such as operations in the information environment, indirect fires, anti-armor, counter UAS [unmanned aerial systems] and air defense, anti-ship and sea control capability, increased logistics capacity, and available training and manpower conducive to a 1:3 deployment–to-dwell ratio,” Carpenter wrote in an email to Marine Corps Times.
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