The Marine Corps Is Experimenting with a Concept that Could Reshape the Infantry
26 Apr 2021
Military.com | By Gina Harkins
Infantry Marines get specialized training to operate specific weapons, but that could change as the service experiments with a model to create generalists who can use several different systems in combat.
Three infantry battalions are spending two years testing new models that could revolutionize the Marine Corps' ground combat element. The effort is part of a 10-year plan to reshape the service as it prepares for possible conflict with near-peer threats -- mainly China.
The model that could perhaps lead to the most dramatic changes to the Marine infantry battalion is called the "arms room concept," which Brig. Gen. Eric "Smash" Austin, with the service's Combat Development and Integration, describes as "an armory of many different systems."
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