{"id":27116,"date":"2019-01-25T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/25\/continue-the-attack-top-marine-delivers-his-final-annual-message-to-the-corps\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:04:27","slug":"continue-the-attack-top-marine-delivers-his-final-annual-message-to-the-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/25\/continue-the-attack-top-marine-delivers-his-final-annual-message-to-the-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Continue the attack\u2019: Top Marine delivers his final annual message to the Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller\u2019s tenure as the top Marine is ending in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his final yearly message to the Corps Neller urged Marines to \u201ccontinue the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 37th commandant has spent the past few years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/09\/25\/the-state-of-the-marine-corps-can-the-corps-new-vision-actually-become-reality\/\" target=_blank>modernizing the Corps<\/a> and overhauling its combat power by retiring aging legacy aircraft and vehicles with newer systems in preparation for a fight with a more sophisticated adversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his fourth and last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqmc.marines.mil\/Portals\/142\/Docs\/Message%20to%20The%20Force%202019%20Continue%20the%20Attack%20190125.pdf?ver=2019-01-24-142441-117\" target=_blank>message to the Corps<\/a>, the commandant called on the Marine Corps to continue its path to modernize and build a smarter, more lethal Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis year, I call on all of us to continue the attack \u2013 to advance on multiple lines of effort in preparation for future conflicts,\u201d Neller\u2019s message reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are in a fast-paced, exciting time in our Corps\u2019 history as we create additional specialties to fight in new domains, modernize our aging equipment, up our game in training against thinking foes, continue to take the fight to our Nation\u2019s adversaries, and prepare for the unknowns of the future fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps already has made significant strides in modernization, like revamping the infantry squad by dishing out new tech, automatic weapons, night vision and <a 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class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Modernizing infantry Marines: Big changes coming as grunts take on more special ops-style missions<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Corps is on a major push to overhaul how its fundamental basic unit operates in battle.<\/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\">Neller also plans to experiment with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/11\/29\/the-corps-will-experiment-with-15-man-rifle-squad-for-upcoming-meu-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">15-man rifle squad<\/a> configuration on an upcoming Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new larger rifle squad configurations may help Marines absorb new technologies like drones and tablet computers while boosting battlefield situational awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps also is bringing in new advanced aircraft and vehicles like the stealth F-35 and new eight-wheeled amphibious combat vehicle, or ACV, while it retires aging platforms like the F\/A-18 Hornets and the tracked assault amphibious vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The F-35 already is deploying aboard amphibious assault ships with MEUs, and it even carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/09\/27\/f-35-flies-first-combat-mission-in-afghanistan\/\" target=_blank>combat strikes<\/a> against targets in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps is expected to take delivery of the BAE\u2019s ACV in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while the Corps is moving fast to modernize, there\u2019s still a lot to be done to overhaul a force that has been stuck in the quagmire of counterinsurgency conflicts for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur legacy of fighting and winning is not attached to any piece of equipment, but to our creativity and resolve to defeat our enemies,\u201d Neller\u2019s message reads. \u201cWe cannot afford to carry the burden of outdated or obsolete capabilities, or expend readiness on low-priority commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neller\u2019s remarks also called on the Corps to push serious cultural changes that have impacted the Corps\u2019 image in the eyes of the public and conduct that Neller says will prevent the Marines from \u201cgoing to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBehaviors such as drunkenness, sexual assault, sexual harassment, inappropriate conduct on social media, hazing, recklessness, and general lack of discipline do nothing to help our readiness,\u201d Neller\u2019s message reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe relationship 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