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Warrior mindset must remain, Corps says, even as Marines shift from infantry to the sea 2 hours ago A Marine with 8th Engineer Support Battalion clears a simulated enemy cache site during a simulated live-fire event during Command Post Exercise VI (CPX) on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 2. (Lance Cpl. Zachary Zephir/Marine Corps) The Corps will no longer field a force focused on capturing a contested area, but rather one designed to survive deep inside a contested zone while supporting a Naval campaign. The focus was announced in the new Tentative Manual for Expeditionary Advance B...

How a Marine Corps shift to long ranges may change its strong cannoneer tradition Philip Athey keyboard_arrow_down Marines from Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment fire an M777 howitzer during a training exercise aboard Camp Fallujah, Iraq, April 19, 2008. (Sgt Nathaniel C. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) A good Marine Corps M777 ­howitzer crew operates with a speed that would impress the best NASCAR pit crew. Each crew is racing against its neighbors in an intense rivalry for ­bragging rights as the fastest gun, only to retreat to machine gun positions turned smoke pits or take naps un...

By   Paul McLeary on April 01, 2021 at 10:15 AM Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger at Twentynine Palms. WASHINGTON: An ambitious new Marine Corps planning document outlines historic changes in how the service plans to equip, organize, and train over the next decade to meet the challenges of Chinese and Russian competition, ushering in changes not seen since the 1920s. The unreleased 180-page document is meant as a first iteration of an effort to create a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying small ...

Home» News»US Navy and Marine Corps Release Unmanned Campaign Plan WASHINGTON (March 16, 2021) The Unmanned Campaign Plan represents the Navy and Marine Corps' strategy for making unmanned systems a trusted and integral part of warfighting. (U.S. Navy graphic) US Navy and Marine Corps Release Unmanned Campaign Plan The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps released the Unmanned Campaign framework today. The Unmanned Campaign Plan represents the Navy and Marine Corps’ strategy for making unmanned systems a trusted and integral part of warfighting. ...

The Marines wants to start fielding new gear faster than ever September 8, 2016 Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment prepare a Weaponized Multi-Utility Tactical Transport vehicle for a patrol at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 13, 2016. The system is a multifunction force multiplier configured to persist, protect and project the small unit built by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. The lab is conducting a Marine Air-Ground Task Force Integrated Experiment in conjunction with Rim of the Pacific exercise to explore new gear and assess its capabilities for pot...