{"id":15044,"date":"2019-04-09T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/09\/top-marine-says-border-mission-has-improved-readiness-for-some-units\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:34:43","slug":"top-marine-says-border-mission-has-improved-readiness-for-some-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/04\/09\/top-marine-says-border-mission-has-improved-readiness-for-some-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Marine says border mission has actually improved readiness for some units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller told lawmakers Tuesday that the deployment of Marines to the U.S.-Mexico border has actually improved the readiness of some units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments from the top Marine come after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-marine-corps-border-national-emergency-20190321-story.html\" target=_blank>Los Angeles Times<\/a> detailed a memo from Neller to his boss, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, that the border deployments and other unresourced requirements were posing \u201cunacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday regarding the Navy budget request, Neller told lawmakers that no training exercises were canceled as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/09\/13\/the-marine-corps-is-quietly-monitoring-sections-of-the-us-mexico-border-to-stop-migrants-and-drug-traffickers\/\" target=\"_blank\">border mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top Marine said that one exercise had reduced personnel and added that a small number of Marines scheduled to go to training were instead sent to the border mission.<\/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\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/03\/21\/border-ops-straining-marine-corps-commandant-warns\/\" 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=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4938765.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\">Deployments to US-Mexico border straining Marine Corps, commandant warns<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Marines&#039; top general said readiness would further erode without funding relief.<\/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\">Overall, Neller characterized statements describing the border mission as posing a threat to Marine Corps readiness as \u201cnot accurate,\u201d and said that some units increased their readiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Units that hail from job fields like engineering and military police carried out tasks \u201cmore in line with their core mission,\u201d Neller said, responding to questions from senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAviation units that were assigned to that early on have improved their readiness, because they were able to fly certain profiles,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neller did say one unit was not working in a core competency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spencer echoed those sentiments when pressed about the border mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFive hundred men for a month at the southern border is $1.25 million. In my mind, is that affecting my readiness stress? No it\u2019s not,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top Marine told lawmakers that the memo to his boss was meant to outline eight fiscal shortfalls, one of which was the cost of putting Marines at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps has a shortfall of about $300 million as a result of some unresourced and unplanned requirements, but the cost for the border mission amounted to less than 2 percent of that, according to Neller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spencer added that the biggest fiscal stressor on the Corps was the damages caused by hurricanes like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/28\/we-fight-from-our-bases-hurricane-florence-destruction-continues-to-impact-corps-ability-to-fight-damages-800-facilities-24th-meu-headquarters\/\" target=_blank> Florence, <\/a>which slammed the East Coast in September 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to pay our bills,\u201d Neller told senators. \u201cIf we didn\u2019t get additional money then we would have to look at other sources of money, which could potentially include other exercises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neller recently tweeted that Congress was planning to reprogram $400 million for recovery and repair efforts in the wake of Hurricane Florence, which caused roughly $3.6 billion in damages to East Coast Marine installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRegarding the reprogramming, approximately two-thirds of the $400 million will be used to repair roofs and make interior repairs to buildings,\u201d Maj. 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