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03-16-2009, 10:22 PM
zuludelta
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What I'm really becoming interested in is the new Army fighting tactics that have evolved into the Stryker. This Joint Operations/Expeditionary Force mentality. Something the Marines are already setup to do but with a heavy concentration of electronics and battlefield interactions.
The USMC, in my mind, really have the notion of a self-contained joint capability force down pat. I guess that's part of the reason why they resisted officially joining USSOCOM for so long (while the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force dove into it two feet first). I think the USMC brass initially thought that USSOCOM compatibility didn't really offer them anything that they don't already have on their own. They already have long-range force projection abilities so they don't need to hook up with Air Force Special Operations Command, they've got some of the armed forces' best direct action and special reconnaissance assets with Force Recon, and their relationship with NAVSPECWARCOM pretty much covers whatever operational holes they might have when it comes to spec-ops requirements.
USSOCOM's relatively new Marine Corps Special Operations component (MARSOC) is going through some teething problems though. They've been out of the SOCOM loop for so long that their role isn't clearly defined. Right now, I think, MARSOC teams are just being assigned missions that would have normally been assigned to NAVSPECWARCOM's SEAL Teams, so there's a lot of grumbling about them being redundant and whatnot.
I still think that the USMC's Maritime Special Purpose Force is the best theoretical framework to hang a fictional but plausible GI Joe force structure on. An MSPF is basically a company-sized direct action unit with its own aircraft and intelligence assets, capable of operating independently for a limited amount of time. Think of it as a ranger or SF company, or a SEAL troop, but equipped with their own organic helicopters and C-130s (instead of having to "borrow" 160th SOAR, Air Force Special Ops, or Naval Aviation assets). To me, that sounds very much like a set-up that can accomodate the GI Joe team's fictional mix of ground and air combat elements.
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