USMC and the JLTV.

“It must be light enough to leverage the flexibility and capacity of amphibious shipping, yet heavy enough to accomplish the mission. Larger than special operations forces, but lighter and more expeditionary than conventional Army units, we must be able to engage and respond quickly – often from the sea – with enough forces to carry the day,” the report stated. “The imperative for the Marine Corps is to preserve capabilities developed since 9/11, expand our engagement efforts, respond to crisis and still be able to project power for the most dangerous threat scenarios.

With the above statement describing the Marine Corps of the future then how do we justify buying the JLTV?

The Commandant recently talked about belt tightening...how does buying this vehicle help us do that?

We have more MRAPs in inventory than we know what to do with.  If IEDs are a threat to our forces then we'll need to get them out of storage...even the MATV is too light to deal with many of them and its still heavier than the JLTV.

So tell me how it makes sense for the Marine Corps to buy 3000 of these vehicles?!

Time to activate the Marine Corps super power...