Landing Craft Air Cushions prepare to land aboard the USNS John Glenn during a Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) exercise designed to train Marines and Sailors on arrival and assembly operation to ensure that the right equipment, supplies and tools get to the right people in a crisis response, humanitarian assistance or combat operation. (Lance Cpl. Roxanna Gonzalez/Marine Corps)
Marine Times: The Corps must change how it gets wartime gear to the fight, generals say
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Top Marine Corps leaders say that the current way the force keeps its wartime inventory positioned forward won’t work in a battle with China and needs major changes to remain relevant.
For nearly 40 years the Marine Corps has relied on the Maritime Prepositioning Force program to have a brigade’s worth of gear at the ready in key theaters. That program has been reconfigured over the years but essentially uses squadrons of densely packed commercial ships that hold everything from tanks to trucks to radios to spare parts.
But three generals who spoke at the annual National Defense Industrial Association Expeditionary Warfare Conference said the program at best needs changing at could need an entire overhaul.
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WNU Editor: Bottom line. You cannot fight a war if you cannot bring your equipment to it.
