{"id":13205,"date":"2016-03-16T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13205"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:00:47","slug":"military-defense-news-usmc-asst-commandant-warns-usmc-is-not-ready-for-another-big-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/16\/military-defense-news-usmc-asst-commandant-warns-usmc-is-not-ready-for-another-big-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Defense News: USMC Asst. Commandant Warns USMC is NOT Ready for Another Big Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A President is the Commander-in-Chief of ALL the Armed Forces. His Primary and FIRST Job is to ensure this Nation is Defended and Safe, regardless of Politics. This POTUS for the last 7 years has Failed miserably in that task&#8230;.and like all screw ups that occur in the White House, it is going to cost American lives. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/usmc6.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Marines board the open back of a Sea Stallion helicopter in Garmsir District, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. (AP Photo\/Brennan Linsley)\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps warned Congress on Tuesday that he believes that\u00a0the Marine Corps is in a dire readiness situation after 15 years of war and budget cuts, resulting in a lack of training and equipment,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-general-to-congress-we-might-not-be-ready-for-another-war-1.399376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. John Paxton told a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee that several components of the Corps would be unable to respond to an unexpected crisis, long regarded as a Marine specialty. Paxton highlighted aviation as one of the hardest hit areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry about the capability and the capacity to win in a major fight somewhere else right now,\u201d Paxton said.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton also said that approximately 80 percent of Marine aviation units do not have the number of aircraft that they need for training and operations.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/slew-of-military-helicopter-deaths-raises-question-of-whether-budget-cuts-endanger-troops-1.390587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number of accidents<\/a> surrounding Marine Corp aircraft which Paxton said may be connected to the budget cuts and that the Corps would be investigating any possible connection.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation was not alone, however, Paxton also warned about the drastically reduced ability of communications and intelligence units.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the event of a crisis, these degraded units could either be called upon to deploy immediately at increased risk to the force and the mission, or require additional time to prepare thus incurring increased risk to mission by surrendering the initiative to our adversaries,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cThis does not mean we will not be able to respond to the call \u2026 It does mean that executing our defense strategy or responding to an emergent crisis may require more time, more risk, and incur greater costs and casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of our intelligence and communications battalions\u2026would be unable to execute their full wartime mission requirements if called upon today,\u201d Paxton said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Story at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/marine-corps-assistant-commandant-warns-corps-isnt-ready\/\"> Free Beacon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A President is the Commander-in-Chief of ALL the Armed Forces. His Primary and FIRST Job is to ensure this Nation is Defended and Safe, regardless of Politics. This POTUS for the last 7 years has Failed miserably in that task&#8230;.and like all screw ups that occur in the White House, it is going to cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,4333,5429,2820],"tags":[3329,10317,10318],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}