{"id":85579,"date":"2019-03-13T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85579"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:05:02","slug":"marines-want-new-reapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85579","title":{"rendered":"Marines Want New Reapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/Ke5CKmKcteXWuh9CGvGrLjX1eAs=\/1200x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/7NL6UOQK4VCNJC5I5ZLGWMVVG4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An MC-1 Reaper drone.\u00a0 Photo by\u00a0Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys\/Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps has indicated that it plans to add only 100 Marines to its roster in 2020, but wants a buttload of the new Reaper drones that are coming on the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/12\/the-corps-seeks-reaper-drones-and-modernization-in-budget-request-but-will-only-add-100-marines-in-2020\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/12\/the-corps-seeks-reaper-drones-and-modernization-in-budget-request-but-will-only-add-100-marines-in-2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did think was something that Duffel Blog had cooked up, but it was posted in Marine Corps Times. My obvious question would be &#8220;What will recruiters do if the jarheads only want 100 new people to torment?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also, per the article going to add this to their stock of stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,398 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, or JLTVs, in fiscal year 2020, 244 less than the prior year.<\/li>\n<li>56 of the first full rate production of the new eight-wheeled amphibious combat vehicle, to replace the current amphibious tracked vehicle<\/li>\n<li>ground combat and utility task vehicle versions of the networking-on-the-move system, or NOTM. The Corp\u2019s NOTM system is designed to ease data and communications while being highly mobile on the battlefield.<\/li>\n<li>eight Ground\/Air Task Oriented Radar, or G\/ATOR. The G\/ATOR is a mobile radar system capable of tracking an array of air breathing targets and incoming projectiles like mortars, artillery and cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is in addition to all those other things they need for weapons and logistical support. But they&#8217;re only adding 100 people to the plot line, so maybe retention is up, and they just aren&#8217;t talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes into more detail. At least we know partly how our tax money is being spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MC-1 Reaper drone.\u00a0 Photo by\u00a0Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys\/Air Force. The Marine Corps has indicated that &hellip; <a title=\"Marines Want New Reapers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85579\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines Want New Reapers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}