Marine Corps Training Continues – With Some Modifications – to Keep High Readiness Despite Pandemic

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Marine Corps Training Continues – With Some Modifications – to Keep High Readiness Despite Pandemic
By: Megan Eckstein
March 26, 2020 5:32 PM


THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps is dedicated to remaining a “fight tonight” force for the United States despite the coronavirus pandemic and will continue training to mission-essential tasks as determined by local commanders, the commandant said today.

“We are mandated by law to be the nation’s most ready force, and that’s what I think you expect us to be,” Gen. David Berger told reporters at a Pentagon briefing today.

“The unique part about the Navy-Marine Corps team is this is your force in readiness that has to be ready to respond to a problem around the world, and we’ve never been given advanced notice when that’ll happen, so we have to be ready all the time. The commanders, the guidance to them is pretty clear: our force has to be ready to respond when we’re given the direction to do so. So you need to conduct the training that’s necessary to maintain your readiness. They have changed the way that they’re training to a large degree, where there’s not large bodies in close confined spaces; they’ve spread it out, and they’ve curtailed some training that was nice to do, good to do, but not absolutely necessary for their mission essential tasks. So they’ve tailored it, but I think you expect your Marine Corps and your Navy to be ready to go when called to do so, and that’s what their responsibility is.”

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