{"id":15043,"date":"2019-05-21T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/21\/far-out-field-trip-what-marines-could-learn-from-burning-man\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:23:15","slug":"far-out-field-trip-what-marines-could-learn-from-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/05\/21\/far-out-field-trip-what-marines-could-learn-from-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Far out field trip: What the Marine Corps can learn from Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweaty, spaced out, often shirtless people roaming around the desert or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpslogistics.org\/blog\/watch-it-burn-part-i-lessons-learned-from-the-fyre-festival\" target=_blank>beachhead<\/a> with dangerous chemicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it a Marine Corps field op or a massive group experience such as the failed Fyre Festival or the annual festival event known as Burning Man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One recently retired Marine Corps major thinks it might not matter because Marine logisticians could learn valuable lessons from either scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few years ago, while serving aboard the Mountain Warfare Training Center at Bridgeport, California, Maj. Mark Wlaschin was fueling up at a nearby gas station when he noticed a trickle of funky looking vehicles making stops on their way to Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/03\/11\/lsd-and-magic-mushrooms-can-enhance-cognitive-capabilities-help-win-wars-study-claims\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_070802041973.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says \u2018yes\u2019<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">These drugs have the potential to \u201csignificantly heighten alertness, creativity, and problem solving.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019d pull up to gas somewhere and there\u2019d be a camper decked out in fluorescent colors,\u201d Wlaschin told Marine Corps Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On base he told his Marines he\u2019d just seen the craziest thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Coast native hadn\u2019t gotten the word that for the past three decades thousands of participants have gathered in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada to create a temporary city. This city has transported, housed, fed, entertained, enlightened and provided medical attention to around 60,000 people in recent years with zero permanent infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Wlaschin, it sounded a lot like a larger scale version of an expeditionary operation or training exercise, minus the gunplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we had to do (Operation Iraqi Freedom) again, most people in the Marine Corps wouldn\u2019t have the experience level these people do because they do Burning Man every year,\u201d he thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the major started doing his homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He learned about how the event began, what went into setting it up and approached his then commanding officer to see if he could research further and reach out to the organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commander, now retired, granted him some leeway to see what might help with Marine logistics planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had a few phone calls but, alas, no in-person visit to the massive event for this Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His ultimate, post-retirement, suggestion is for the Corps to \u201ctake advantage of the active duty Marines who are already \u2018Burners,\u2019\u201d or those who attend Burning Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYes, there are active duty personnel in all of the services who are Burners,\u201d Wlaschin wrote. He advises Marine leadership to simply do a query search of Marine Online to identify who has requested leave during the event dates with Reno, Nevada, as their destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI apologize to those active duty Devil Dog Burners who just got sweaty palms,\u201d Wlaschin wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He would give those burner Marines a list of requests for information for the next time they attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, a formal partnership could be established between Burning Man staff to put Marines alongside organizers and participants to analyze how the group puts it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s not the first Marine officer to put out an unorthodox idea that might surprise Marine Corps leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maj. Emre Albayrak penned a piece in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mca-marines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Albayrak.pdf\" target=_blank>Marine Corps Gazette\u2019s February issue<\/a> asking whether Marines should consider using psychedelic drugs to \u201cheighten alertness, creativity, and problem solving\u201d all in an effort to help analyze ever-growing heaps of intelligence and help Marines become \u201cstronger, faster and smarter than our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLike most hallucinogens, LSD mimics the effects of serotonin (a mood regulator),\u201d Albayrak wrote, and activates enhanced mental acuity in the areas of learning and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wlaschin, a former enlisted Marine, reached the 20-year mark and retired in 2018. But that didn\u2019t stop him from continuing his research and later publishing articles on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpslogistics.org\/blog\/watch-it-burn-part-ii-burning-man-and-the-art-of-expeditionary-logistics\" target=\"_blank\">marinecorpslogistics.org<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, he didn\u2019t start with Burning Man, which he sees as a major success in logistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wlaschin\u2019s first article was about what logisticians could learn from a massive failure: the Fyre Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highly publicized in a Netflix documentary was the 2017 flop of a festival that saw concertgoers pay as much as $15,000 for a supposed star-studded, luxury music experience on an island in the Bahamas. Instead, it wound up being an event with no running water, portable toilets, disaster relief tents and multiple band cancellations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile military personnel have generally lower expectations than that of a concert attendee \u2026 both benefit greatly when they know what to expect in their billeting, food service, and other life support services,\u201d Wlaschin wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his article, Wlaschin offers some technical observations that might help planners when looking at an event like Fyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany of these exercises are conducted at locations very similar in nature to the location chosen by the Fyre festival,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHad logistics planners been given an appropriate amount of time to plan and coordinate, the event would have likely unfolded in a very different manner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his second article, Wlaschin put his sights on Burning Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile there are certainly some similarities between Burning Man and your last major training exercise, there are obviously some significant differences,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFor example, it is a safe bet that there were more assault rifles and automatic weapons at your last visit to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in 29 Palms, California, or to the Fort Irwin National Training Center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both require life support, balancing budget priorities, environmental concerns and preparing for weather and security issues, he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wlaschin said that both the Marine Corps Aviation Ground Support community and the Marine Corps Logistics Operations Group staff could benefit from a closer analysis of Burning Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MCAGS because Burning Man runs its own impromptu airport and MCLOG for the large-scale logistics considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maj. Stanley Wisniewski III serves as the Logistics Officer-in-Charge for MCLOG. He\u2019s not attended Burning Man himself but said that Wlaschin\u2019s observations could help military planners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think it definitely stands out,\u201d Wisniewski told Marine Corps Times. \u201cI think it\u2019s a pretty cool proposal. There\u2019s definitely parity between what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisniewski saw immediate parallels between Fyre Festival, Burning Man and expeditionary advance basing operations, an emerging concept for distributed maritime operations that the Corps is developing, especially in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While MCLOG staff do attend other military exercises and sometimes look at civilian events such as Federal Emergency Management Agency events, Wisniewski said he has not been involved in looking at a concert or something similar to what Wlaschin had proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s something to be learned everywhere, continue to expose ourselves to new ideas, ways of doing things,\u201d Wisniewski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we had to do (Operation Iraqi Freedom) again, most people in the Marine Corps wouldn\u2019t have the experience 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