{"id":21844,"date":"2023-03-03T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/03\/how-the-marine-corps-plans-to-remake-its-logistics-personnel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:10:51","slug":"how-the-marine-corps-plans-to-remake-its-logistics-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms-battlefield-tech\/2023\/03\/03\/how-the-marine-corps-plans-to-remake-its-logistics-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Marine Corps is preparing for era of contested logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Marine Corps is rethinking how it approaches logistics. To do that, it\u2019s also making changes to how it trains its people who handle logistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its recently released Installations and Logistics 2030<\/a> strategy report, the Corps pushes for a more modern logistics system that could supply and sustain Marines even in a conflict with a technologically sophisticated adversary like the Chinese military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the service\u2019s new warfighting concepts is called stand-in forces<\/a>: small units of Marines that are constantly positioned in contested areas. But getting those forces the fuel, equipment, food and services they need isn\u2019t simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have been spoiled by two decades of conducting strategic and operational logistics in a permissive environment,\u201d Lt. Gen. Edward Banta, deputy commandant for installations and logistics, said in prepared remarks accompanying the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\t