Thursday, July 29, 2004
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I'm a former Marine who has a lot of friends over there right now, and I read your posts fairly often to get another aspect on the war going on over there. To answer the father of that Marine who was griping about what you posted, that you posted on July 23; we are all Americans, what difference does it make what branch we serve in?
Marines and Army have different methods of operation that serve better in different areas of warfare. Army methods work better in some areas, Marine methods work better in others. But instead of arguing about who has better methods, they should get together and USE WHAT WORKS between the two of them.
Hell, I for one am extremely proud to be a Marine, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. I would also put my Marine unit against anything the USMC or US Army has to offer, along with anyone else. But when we went out on deployment, we learned from other branches how to do some things more efficiently. It was a team effort, and inter-service rivalry stayed at the rear back in the States. Regardless of which service a person works for, too much pride can and does get in the way of accomplishing the mission.
Here's to the health and continued success of our troops in Iraq and wherever else they are deployed!
Amen to that, brother.
For what it's worth, here are some ways I believe the Army will benefit by emulating the Marine Corps:
1.) Instilling a warrior ethic not just in combat arms, but in the support MOS's as well.
2.) An emphasis on outstanding marksmanship and weapons training from the first stages of training. The Marines train marksmanship on 500m known distance ranges as a matter of course. They spend much more time on weapons training, and cross training. And allocate the ammunition neccessary to support it. The Army too often treats weapons qualification as a 'check the block' exercize. Sure, Soldiers are too often inadequately cross trained on all weapons within their platoon. This takes training time and it take ammunition to do it to standard.
EVERYONE in an infantry battalion should know how to operate a .50 Cal machine gun, including immediate action drills. Not just 'selected personnel.'
But the Army does not support that level of training.
3.) The Army should drop the term "Platoon Sergeant" and adopt the term "Gunnery Sergeant" in its place, with the possible exception of mechanized units. The term "master gunner" is invaluable. As are these exceptional soldiers.
4.) Infantry units in the Army should adopt the Marine standard of a 3-mile run rather than a two mile run.
5.) The Marines do a much better job integrating close air support with maneuver units than does the Army/Air Force AirLand Battle Doctrine. The Army should develop some limited fixed wing CAS capability, either using A-10s, or Harriers which can take off from helicopter landing fields. And they should integrate the hell out of the asset.
6.) The Marines do a much better job regulating and restricting awards and decorations.
7.) The Army should return to the practice of recognizing exceptional junior enlisted soldiers with corporal ranks--the first rung on the NCO ladder.
8.) The Army should slowly reorganize back to the Regimental system, and lose these silly brigades. The revolution, the civil war, WWI, WWII, and Korea were all fought under the regimental system. Brigades just have boring histories.
The Marines never broke up their regiments, and that's a huge part of the Marine esprit de corps. Every unit has a living, breathing, palpable heritage.
That does bring up the question 'what do you do with the support battalions?'
I say, you let soldiers 'self-affiliate' with a regiment, and with the supporting Division.
Dem's my two cents.
Splash, out
Jason
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