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WASHINGTON \u2014 The Marine of 2030 will be a digital native, born into the age of the Internet of Things and raised with drones, virtual reality goggles and maybe even 3D printers at home \u2014 making the commandant of the Marine Corps comfortable they\u2019ll be able to manage a battlefield swirling with information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. David Berger described the young Marines of today as having borrowed their parents\u2019 smart phones in elementary school but the Marines of tomorrow having their own technology from an even younger age, giving them greater fluency in the information realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will give the service an advantage on a modern battlefield, Berger said at the Modern Day Marine 2022 convention, but only if the Marine Corps properly trains and educates these Marines and finds ways to best harness their interests and skillsets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving beyond the idea that every Marine has one skill, one occupational specialty,\u201d Berger said. \u201cToday\u2019s Marines … [are] capable of proficiency in more than one skill, more than one weapon system, and to stay in front of our competitors we\u2019re going to need them to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the infantry battalion of 2030, for example, \u201cthose Marines are going to be capable of operating the entire range of organic weapons systems in a rifle company \u2014 not a single identity as a machine gunner or a mortarman,\u201d Berger continued. \u201cThey\u2019ll be able to operate every communications device in the battalion. They\u2019ll be trained as a basic engineer. They\u2019ll have life-saving training. They\u2019ll also probably have small boat coxswain skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These multiple military specialties would be supplemented by areas of interest to the Marines \u2014 coding, flying drones, leveraging social media and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger wrote in his November 2021 Talent Management 2030<\/a> document the service must invest in data-driven tools and models<\/a> to steer recruits to specialties where they can grow their talents<\/a>, contribute the most to the greater Corps, and find career satisfaction so they continue to reenlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, having the right Marines with the right professional training and personal interests in the right billets should create a force that can disaggregate into small, dispersed units and still be well prepared to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe experimentation that we\u2019ve done so far in force design indicates that it\u2019s not just possible, it\u2019s necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger described a 2030 infantry battalion that could produce squads or platoons that can manage the whole kill chain themselves \u2014 with the expertise on hand to find the enemy, disguise or distort their own signature and position, employ lethal or non-lethal effects, and then move to a safer location \u2014 without relying on help from specialized units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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150805-N-PO203-143 QUANTICO, Virginia (August 5, 2015) A Marine tries out the Augmented Immersive Team Trainer (AITT) from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) during on-going testing at Quantico, Va. The AITT allows Marines to transform any location into a dynamic training ground by injecting virtual images, indirect fire effects, aircraft, vehicles, simulated people, etc. onto a real-world view of one’s surroundings. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some critics of Berger\u2019s vision have worried too much will be piled on Marines, or that they\u2019ll lose the proficiency that comes with focusing on a single weapon system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger said the service has conducted nine force-on-force exercises at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., over the past year and a half to validate the new look of the infantry battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each and every event has proven \u201csmall, distributed, lethal teams that can employ organic [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance], loitering munitions, and weapons like the Javelin, Carl Gustaf \u2014 much more lethal than larger formations that are using traditional force structures and concepts. And it\u2019s not even close: So far, out of the nine, it\u2019s a perfect record of 9-0\u2033 for the revamped infantry battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berger said giving the Marines in a small unit multiple lethal and non-lethal systems to choose from and the expertise to operate them all on their own is a gamechanger, allowing small units to extend their reach across much larger swaths of area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate media roundtable on May 5, Berger said he could envision a day when the traditional combined armed training event at Twentynine Palms\u2019 Range 400 might include threats on the range, but Marines seeing and prosecuting their targets from off range, as their reach continues to grow over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That these Marines filling the squads and platoons will be digital natives is important, Berger said. He views 21st century combined arms as the effective combination of ISR, precision fires, cyber, information warfare and electronic warfare, he said in his speech \u2014 and that needs to be conducted at the lowest tactical level effectively to win a future fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ability to manage your own electronic signature, locate the threat, detect and exploit their communications, jam their transmissions, interfere with their command and control \u2014 it\u2019s always been important in war, but today I would offer they can be decisive. The combatant who can manage the electronic warfare spectrum and executes a tight ISR-to-decision cycle, closed-loop kill chain, really can dictate the tempo of conflict going forward,\u201d the commandant said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For older Marines, that might feel like having to fight in multiple domains at once. To digital natives, operating in the information and cyber domains is second nature, <\/b>Berger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he hopes industry will bring the rapidly evolving power of artificial intelligence and machine learning into play, providing small units the tools to fuse data from their own sensors and the larger operating picture and to give them actionable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, who spoke alongside Berger at Modern Day Marine, said the heads-up display on the F-35 pilot helmets is a great example of how technology can help an individual make sense of vast quantities of data, and he said he hoped something comparable could be developed for Marines on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Berger said these Marines will come in feeling comfortable in the information and cyber domains, but the service will have to figure out how to refine their behavior to be appropriate for competition or conflict with an enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe learning part, the training part, will be educating the squad leader, the platoon commander, on the offensive and defensive aspects of cyber, and a clear understanding of how to manage your signatures and how to try to affect the threat\u2019s ability to get into your network, and what damage it can do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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