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NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 Can the U.S. Navy\u2019s fleet fight two conflicts at once, while managing distributed forces with limited resources?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s something the Navy and Marine Corps tested during Large Scale Exercise 2023<\/a>, which ran Aug. 9-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and 2nd Marine Logistics Group worked in remote fields to extend the range of the Corps\u2019 helicopters, and sailors aboard aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower at a pier in Norfolk, Virginia, headed to a fight in European waters via virtual training systems<\/a>. Meanwhile, the Navy\u2019s top admirals were hard at work asking new questions about the warfighting concept known as Distributed Maritime Operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the years since the Navy and Marine Corps adopted the DMO concept as their preferred way to fight, the services have experimented and practiced such operations over and over. This latest exercise asks sailors and Marines at the tactical level to conduct distributed operations and win a fight. But it also demands four-star fleet commanders manage two global conflicts while sharing and prioritizing limited assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event has provided lessons learned all the way up and down the chain of command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dIt\u2019s not going to be a regional conflict with our strategic competitors. It will be a global because they are globally distributed themselves,\u201d Capt. Chris Narducci, the lead planner for Large Scale Exercise 2023, told reporters during an Aug. 11 visit to the drill. \u201cWe need to maneuver our forces, we need to distribute our forces. But the most important thing is, they need to remain integrated while we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four-star commanders<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Three four-star admirals used videoconferencing technology each day of the exercise: Adm. Daryl Caudle, who leads U.S. Fleet Forces Command from Norfolk; Adm. Samuel Paparo, who leads U.S. Pacific Fleet from Hawaii; and Adm. Stuart Munsch, who leads U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa from Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scenario this year provided several challenges for them. One was, essentially, a map. The other is how to share limited resources across that map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though clear lines delineate which admiral is in charge of which parts of the globe, the enemy doesn\u2019t care, Caudle said, and is incentivized to take advantage of those seams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Russian and Chinese warships sailed to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska earlier this month, which fall under Paparo\u2019s Pacific Fleet waters but also affect Caudle as the lead for naval homeland defense. Russian submarines regularly operate in the Northern Atlantic, at the seam between Caudle\u2019s Western Atlantic fleet and Munsch\u2019s Eastern Atlantic fleet. Chinese warships ventured to West Africa earlier this summer, crossing from Paparo\u2019s area of responsibility into Munsch\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve seen some real-world examples where our competitors are more increasingly cooperating with one another, and are more increasingly sailing and operating further afield, which further underscores the need for Large Scale Exercise and our ability to find, track and monitor potential threats, and to do so across the globe among commanders whose headquarters are linked at all times,\u201d Paparo said at the media roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this is already happening to a degree, Paparo said the live forces at sea, coupled with virtual forces piped into the scenario created a more complex cross-boundary picture for the admirals to manage together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy injecting virtual tracks, you stress the headquarters\u2019 ability to see and understand the space and to know what each unit is doing,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe effect \u2026 is to stress the command centers, to get them up on a wartime footing so that we\u2019re always ready and that the habits of mind and habits of action of commanding in a global threat environment across a wide geography, across hundreds of units and thousands of warfighters, becomes ingrained in the key warfighting headquarters\u2019 staffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if the complex map weren\u2019t enough of a problem, about a dozen retired admirals and generals playing the roles of higher-headquarters leaders, including combatant commanders, the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, exacerbated the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a conflict, four-star admirals would have to ask these leaders for additional support, such as moving people and supplies into theater with U.S. Transportation Command assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously, we have a limited number of things \u2014 ships, aircraft, people \u2014 and there\u2019s going to be tugging and pulling as the scenario progresses,\u201d said retired Adm. James Foggo, who led Naval Forces Europe-Africa in his final assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Retired Adm. James Foggo, right, who led Naval Forces Europe-Africa in his final assignment, answers questions from the press on Aug. 11, 2023, at the Naval Warfare Development Center in Norfolk, Va. (Chief MC Theodore Green\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Foggo played the roles of defense secretary and Joint Chiefs chairman for the exercise. These top leaders, he said, would vet incoming requests for high-demand, low-density resources and determine their importance based on the highest-level priorities: defending the homeland, protecting national interests and those of American allies, and deterring war, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just not enough stuff to go around, so somebody\u2019s going to get what they need here; somebody else here may have to wait a little bit. But where are the priorities? Where is today\u2019s battle? Where is the preponderance of the force needed to deter the adversary?\u201d Foggo explained. \u201cAnd so that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do \u2014 we\u2019re putting pressure on the leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rear Adm. Andrew Burcher, the vice chief of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and the drill\u2019s leader, told reporters that Large Scale Exercise 2023 assumed the same force deployment and ordnance levels that the fleet had at sea as of the end of June in order to make the event realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, in addition to whatever fights over resources may bubble up organically, Burcher said, the exercise planners had 50-70 problems they purposely introduced into the exercise \u2014 perhaps two fleets needing the same limited resource simultaneously \u2014 to ensure the four-stars officers and the retired leaders would be forced to work through the tension of having more needs than the military could realistically provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stealth and distribution<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

During Large Scale Exercise 2023, a group of about 100 Marines established a forward arming and refueling point, or FARP, at the Oak Grove Outlying Field, located near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. These FARPs are a key type of expeditionary advanced base<\/a> Marines would need to set up in combat as a temporary spot for aircraft to refuel, receive maintenance and load up on weapons before moving to more remote locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key area of focus for these Marines involved their ability to conduct FARP operations with a reduced signature in order to avoid detection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A CH-53E Super Stallion lands on Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Oak Grove, N.C., on Aug. 11, 2023, as part of Large Scale Exercise. (Cpl. Meshaq Hylton\/U.S. Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Col. Ginger Beals, who leads Combat Logistics Regiment 2, told reporters that Marines were experimenting with a new communications system on the FARP that uses light signals instead of verbal communication between forces on the ground and aircraft approaching the base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Lt. Anthony Viteri, the site lead for Oak Grove Outlying Field, said the Corps conducted an electromagnetic spectrum analysis of the area before establishing the FARP, and were conducting additional studies during the exercise. Using that information, Marines will consider how they might replicate a site as \u201ca decoy FARP\u201d and reduce their signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viteri also said Marines at the exercise trained with other communities who haven\u2019t performed FARP operations but may need to do so. Typically, a Marine wing support squadron would provide the power generation and distribution, water purification, and other life support for the FARP. But for this exercise, Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 worked with 8th Engineer Support Battalion to teach engineers from a logistics group how to do it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the future fight, they might be the ones that are supporting us,\u201d Viteri said. \u201cAs we spread out more, we\u2019re going to need more support as far as personnel and equipment, so making sure that multiple people are crosstrained on this will support that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capt. Jason Motycka, a CH-53E pilot with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, said the crosstraining between the air wing and the logistics community supports the aviators\u2019 version of Distributed Maritime Operations \u2014 dubbed Distributed Aviation Operations \u2014 and enable pilots \u201cto be survivable and operate further out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motycka also said the exercise helps Marines aviators identify what it will take to operate from remote locations for a certain length of time. \u201cIf we\u2019re going out and operating for a given amount of time with that reduced footprint, we\u2019re refining what that looks like in terms of personnel, aircraft, fuel requirements, maintenance requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is to become become leaner while still remaining effective, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paparo emphasized that the \u201ctactical corporals and tactical petty officers\u201d benefit from this type of training by executing the Distributed Maritime Operations approach in real terrain, using real equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without these drills, he said. \u201cit\u2019s all just a bunch of concepts on a sheet of paper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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