Talking out of both sides of the Marine Corps mouth.

Via National Defense.

Marine Corps officials are eager to return to the service's traditional role of global crisis response force operating from the sea.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, the service's director of the Quadrennial Defense Review, said the strategic planning document, due in 2014, would enshrine that wish.

“We see ourselves as a forward-deployed, hedge force that buys time for the strategically decisive force of the nation to arrive and conduct their … ground campaign, and that would be the U.S. Army,” McKenzie told Washington, D.C.-based defense reporters March 26.

OK.  The return to the sea theme.  I like it, it makes sense, its what we're about.  But then check this out...

McKenzie envisioned the potential of becoming a "continental response force" by using V-22 Ospreys, which have greater speed and range than conventional rotorcraft.“In the case of Special Maritime Crisis Response, what you’re going to see is a forward-deployed crisis response element of Marines that are going to be married to V-22 Ospreys and aerial refuelers which give you truly continental range from a land base,” said McKenzie.
Over time it may become a form of “theater engagement” that would be land-based, but would be able to manage forces that were deployed afloat.

I blame this part on an aviation centric Commandant.  I hope someone realizes that he is in one instance selling a naval Marine Corps and then in the next "enshrining"a second land Army type mission as performed by the 101st!

I don't get this.  I don't understand the thinking.  Read the article for yourself here.