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Why the US Marine Corps plans big downsizing, including some F-35s, MV-22s and all tanks
The Marine Corps is not optimised to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy... The architect of this new plan is General David Berger, commandant of the USMC, who assumed the service’s top job in July 2019. The US National Defense Strategy has shifted the Pentagon’s focus from combatting terrorist groups to preparing for possible battles with China and Russia, a so-called Great Power Conflict.
Over the next 10 years, the service plans to drastically downsize its force, cutting 12,000 personnel and reducing its number of aircraft, including a significant number of its bespoke F-35B, MV-22 and CH-53.
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The USMC plans to get rid of its law enforcement battalions, tank battalions (including all of its M1A1) and all bridging companies. Infantry battalions are to be reduced from 24 to 21; artillery cannon batteries from 21 to 5; and amphibious vehicle companies from 6 to 4.
It will also purge one V-22 Osprey squadron, one CH-53E squadron and two AH-1Z squadrons.
The Lockheed Martin F-35B/C would suffer its first programme of record reduction in its history.
“The Marine Corps will reduce the Primary Aircraft Authorized per squadron of F-35B and C aircraft from 16 to 10,” says the USMC.
The Marine Corps had planned to buy a total of 420 F-35s (353 F-35Bs and 67 F35Cs) by 2031. The service did not respond to request for details on how much its programme of record would be cut, but Cancian says the reduction numbers can be inferred.
“This would imply buying about 120 to 130 aircraft fewer,” he says.
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