Future of the Marine Corps?
The Marine Corps is reducing its size as I'm sure most of us here know. They have also been ordered to re-evaluate what an amphibious expeditionary force in readiness looks like, due to the Marine Corps operating like a second Army. They're also stressing the amphibious aspect of the Corps.
What exactly does that entail? As a 16 year old civilian who has never served, my civilian guess would be to reduce size to save money and get a higher quality of Marine, then make the MEUs more efficient through better investments, more training\equipment per Marine, etc.
But what do you Marines think\know this means, will it be something simple like reducing size and better investments or does it mean the whole MEU concept will be changed or gone with another concept to take its place, not saying MEUs aren't effective but things like mines have kept them from landing (Kuwait) which takes away to force in readiness aspect. Also like I stated above, the USMC is returning to its amphibious roots. Does this mean they won't participate in missions like Afghanistan and they'll only do coastal missions?
I'm asking because I am going to enlist next year and would like to know about the future of the branch I'm going into. Thanks in advance for reading and posting Marines.