Pacific Blitz Tests How Navy, Marines Could Fight the Next Island Campaign

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Pacific Blitz Tests How Navy, Marines Could Fight the Next Island Campaign
By: Gidget Fuentes
March 26, 2019 10:31 AM • Updated: March 26, 2019 6:58 PM

 

As amphibious exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 wraps up today, senior commanders already are reviewing after-action lessons and thinking ahead to future exercises that will help develop, train and prepare forces for fights on the move and close to shore.

The exercise, which began March 12 off Southern California, is the result of combining the logistics exercise Pacific Horizon and amphibious exercise Dawn Blitz “to try to start getting at this complicated concept,” Vice Adm. John Alexander, the U.S. 3rd Fleet commander in San Diego, said of the Marine Corps’ Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE) concept that involves moving small groups of Marines around on shore or between islands. “It’s a different way of doing business.”

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