{"id":168547,"date":"2025-04-15T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168547"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:33:49","slug":"marine-corps-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168547","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nImprovise. Adapt. Overcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers<\/h3>\n

General highlights how drones and small guided munitions are about to give each Marine exponentially more reach than the traditional rifle.
\nJoseph Trevithick<\/strong><\/p>\n

The increasing prevalence of weaponized drones, especially first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze types, and other man-portable precision munitions could lead to a change in the U.S. Marine Corps\u2019 famous mantra of \u201cevery Marine a rifleman,\u201d according to the general who oversees the training of the service\u2019s new recruits.<\/p>\n

Marine Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, who is currently head of Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM), talked yesterday about how the evolving nature of modern warfare is also impacting the very core of his service\u2019s warrior ethos. Watson\u2019s remarks came during a panel discussion on Marine Corps modernization at the Navy League\u2019s Sea Air Space 2025 exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our mantras, kind of bumper stickers, which has real meaning for us culturally as a service, is sort of \u2018every Marine [a] rifleman,’\u201d Watson said. Now, \u201cthe idea [is] that any Marine, using a precision weapon, can kill somebody who needs killing at ranges up to 500 meters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think about that, and that\u2019s still important, right, being able to achieve combat overmatch at that echelon,\u201d he added. \u201cBut now, if you use technology, that same Marine can be just as lethal at ranges out to 15 to 20 kilometers and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd one of the initiatives we partnered on here is this Marine Corps Attack Drone Team,\u201d the TECOM commander continued. \u201cIt started down at Quantico, with the partnership between [the] Marine Corps Warfighting Lab[oratory] and [the] Weapons Training Battalion, and they are using FPV drones, first-person-view drones. And they are paving the way for some of the policy, technology, and fiscal challenges into how we bring these in, at scale, and we turn a rifleman into somebody who cannot just kill an adversary with a precision weapon at 500 meters, but can do it out at 15 to 20 kilometers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TWZ<\/a><\/p>\n

Star of recruiting ad turned Congressman<\/p>\n

The Marine in one of the most famous recruiting commercials is now in Congress<\/h3>\n

Rep. Rich McCormick was a young lieutenant when he was cast in the Marine recruiting ad \u201cChess.\u201d<\/em>
\nJeff Schogol<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, Rich McCormick was one of several hundred young Marine lieutenants at The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, when he was interviewed to appear in a new recruiting ad.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps was looking for \u201cthe most steel-eyed, square-jawed Marines they could find,\u201d joked McCormick, now a Republican member of Congress from Georgia. The commercial would also require a Marine to perform Sword Manual Procedures.<\/p>\n

As it happened, McCormick had been a drill team commander in college, and he was ultimately cast. The commercial that McCormick was selected for was \u201cChess,\u201d one of the most memorable recruiting commercials in Marine Corps history. (Perhaps only surpassed by the \u2018Lava Monster.\u2019)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great moment of pride,\u201d McCormick told Task & Purpose. \u201cIt was something you feel like you want to tell the whole world about because it means that much to you. There\u2019s no more pride that you can feel than representing something you hold near and dear to your very being of how you define itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Task&Purpose<\/a>
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