{"id":14481,"date":"2019-09-18T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/18\/the-commandant-has-a-new-plan-for-the-marine-corps-heres-how-marines-will-get-the-gear-to-make-it-a-reality\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:25:09","slug":"the-commandant-has-a-new-plan-for-the-marine-corps-heres-how-marines-will-get-the-gear-to-make-it-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/modern-day-marine\/2019\/09\/18\/the-commandant-has-a-new-plan-for-the-marine-corps-heres-how-marines-will-get-the-gear-to-make-it-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The commandant has a new plan for the Marine Corps. Here\u2019s how Marines will get the gear to make it a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. \u2013 Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has given the Corps\u2019 its way forward, a three-star general and six key Marine colonels spoke Tuesday about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/04\/29\/the-marines-are-gunning-up-the-amphibious-combat-vehicle-is-a-40mm-cannon-in-its-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">how they\u2019ll use technology<\/a> fight future battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. Eric Smith kicked off the annual Modern Day Marine Corps Military Expo here with a focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/06\/13\/no-more-army-adviser-brigades-or-amphib-ships-this-proposed-report-could-radically-change-how-the-services-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">the role of the Marines<\/a> in the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/04\/25\/a-new-sniper-mos-marines-are-testing-a-proof-of-concept-for-scout-snipers\/\" target=\"_blank\">weapons<\/a> engagement zone.\u201d The term is highlighted in Berger\u2019s Commandant\u2019s Planning Guidance, released this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guidance pushes deeper naval integration, an increase in gear and tech that\u2019s expeditionary, affordable and disposable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t be training in Thailand, something happens and we say oh, wait, we have to go back to Okinawa for two weeks,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe have to take it with us. It has to be affordable and light.\u201d<\/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\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/09\/17\/the-state-of-the-marine-corps-inside-the-corps-warplans-to-sink-ships\/\" 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=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MAR-Cover-1-.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\">State of the Marine Corps: Inside the Corps\u2019 warplans to sink ships<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Sinking ships is not something the Marine Corps has done since World War II \u2014 but it&#039;s thinking about it now.<\/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\">To that end, colonels with the Combat Development Directorate under Smith\u2019s command, the Combat Development Command, are pushing their priorities to industry to find new ways to fight what all involved see as a complex, fast-moving, zero-room-for-error future war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future will be lighter, more autonomous and involve manned and unmanned teaming, Smith pulled from Berger\u2019s guidance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top Marine brass will favor \u201cnewer and more affordable over exquisite,\u201d and be looking for smaller, lighter, less exquisite but more numerous\u201d solutions to their warfighting problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re getting after that not just with canvassing booths and pushing out needs statements but instead by wargaming concepts and solutions and using those to build mid- and long-term ways of developing new equipment that can evolve alongside their warfighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to bring about a level of change in the Marine Corps that we have probably not seen at least in this table\u2019s lifetime,\u2019 said Col. Paul Weaver, who heads CDD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the key ways in which they\u2019ll have to catch up to the demands of the modern battlefield is in an age-old arena \u2013 ground fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. Dave Bardorf, director of the Ground Combat Element at CDD, said that while the aviation side of the Marine Corps has the fires that are needed for the fight in their zone, the ground side is, \u201cwoefully behind on that capability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn order to be relevant to the joint force and to us, ground base fires have to be effective,\u201d Bardorf said. \u201cIf they\u2019re not effective, we\u2019re not relevant as a force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for those ground fires to be effective, they need ammo and ways to fix vehicles when they break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That falls in Col. Jesse Kemp\u2019s lane, as he heads logistics for CDD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Berger hit on possibly one of the Corps\u2019 sacred cows in his planning guidance: the Maritime Preposition Force. The strategic sealift that puts gear with Marines in far flung areas will need changing if it\u2019s going to survive a complex fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kemp called that program the \u201cjewel\u201d of the Marine Corps, but quickly admitted that while it\u2019s provided a great capability it is \u201cquickly becoming not as relevant as in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And pushing the right amount of gear, resupply, maintenance to support Marines in the weapons engagement zone will be critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur effectiveness, our agility as a force is going to depend on the capability we design,\u201d Kemp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever replaces it will have to offload under threat conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past doing effective offloads and sustaining combat operations was measured in months. That will become hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Future projections look to do a Marine Air Ground Task Force of substantial size in a 72 to 48 hour window. That\u2019s lighting speed compared to where the combined Fleet Marine Force paired with strategic lift MPF units are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And maintaining whatever is offloaded is key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo matter the system, that capability, if it doesn\u2019t have a simple maintenance system easily diagnosed on a forward, austere battlefield that can bring contact systems in to replace key items then no matter the system it quickly becomes untenable on the battlefield of the future,\u201d Kemp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another word that stuck out of the guidance will be paramount to how these colonels develop systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. Kurt Schiller heads aviation for the CDD. He recalled work he did in theater with an Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team that had to push soldiers and vehicles to a hot zone to retrieve a downed drone, risking lives and equipment for what should have been a throw away item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That can\u2019t be the way units use resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead they must be able to, \u201caccept risk and lose platforms without worrying about losing assets or having someone come down on you for losing an asset,\u201d Schiller said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. Matthew Rau heads the command element for CDD. Boiling his portfolio down to three areas, he explained that advances in those areas \u2013 systems, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and the signals intelligence\/electronic warfare branch \u2013 will require streamlining and miniaturizing to be effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the last but likely most used element \u2013 information warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s in Col. Scott Stebbins\u2019 arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First on the docket is to reduce the footprint and needs of the combat operations center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Stebbins said, it\u2019s too big, too heavy and too slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future COC will be built around software solutions. \u201cIt\u2019s all about the apps these days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corps wide they\u2019re reducing data centers down to 10, which helps consolidate data and also reduces threat level to those sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019ll also head ways to improve electronic signature management, another of Berger\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of those are aimed at those Marines, forward deployed, who must shift from a day to day training role to intense combat in moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe live inside the weapons engagement zone. We\u2019re not going anywhere,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe live inside the weapons engagement zone and we fully intend to stay. 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