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| PHILIPPINE SEA - Two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 and one from VMM 265 landed for the first time on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), Nov. 17. The unique aircraft capable of vertical short takeoff and landing (VSTOL), similar to that of the Marine AV-8B Harrier jump jet, landed on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to refuel to continue the delivery of relief supplies and transport of personnel in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. |
RANT TIME!
This is beyond unseemly now. They're pimping the MV-22 like a cheap whore. Personally even if I loved every ounce of the airplane I'd be concerned. I don't so I'm pissed. They're trying so hard to stir up overseas orders and to push the Navy to buying it for the Carrier Onboard Delivery requirement that they don't see the ass that they're making of the Corps.
Check out the Israeli Defense Force Flickr page.
What do you see? You see IDF pumping up its people, helping the people of the Philippines in their hour of need. Check out the USMC Flickr site and you see the MV-22. You listen to Marine Corps spokesmen or senior officers and they talk about the MV-22.
Its sickening. Its pathetic. Its desperate and it fucking needs to stop..showcase how Marines are helping the Filipino people and once that is done then you circle back to your favorite toy. Right now they have it ass backwards.
Stripes, today:
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The USS George Washington will likely leave the Philippines in about three days, after the arrival of two amphibious ships that are better equipped to deal with a disaster such as Typhoon Haiyan, Navy officials said Monday.
Yeah, reading the USMC Haiyan efforts is silly. Do people in need, starving, thirsty in need of medical attention really care if the aircraft can rapidly "convert quickly to fixed wing configuration"?
ReplyDeletePeople, Ideas, Hardware. The Marines under Amos, and the services in general, have it - They are obsessed about hardware at the expense of people and their ideas.
Name a service right now that values it's people more than its platforms?
Navy - carriers, LCS
USAF - F35
USMC - F35, Osprey
Army - GCV, JLTV, AMPV
all the services are going to each shed tens of thousands of trained, experienced, many combat veterans, who any other nation on the earth would envy, just so they can afford new toys.
If you took just the vets who are sick of the BS and are heading for the exits or who are getting bad reviews for not being 'team players' or 'too abrasive' aka mavericks, then gave them a budget and left it to them to design a force from the ground up, I think they could build a world beater. They would be unencumbered of traditions, rivalries, ass-kissing, defense contractors, promotion boards, fitreps, all the shit that is used to destroy innovators.
what a shame we place so much faith in the dolts that have made it as Flag officers.
Japan and South Korea will both buy them to go with the F-35Bs they're going to buy. LOL. Basically anybody with a carrier that has a ramp (Australia, Italy, Spain) or wants to increase their presence at sea (Japan, South Korea, UK) will be buying F-35Bs. (And of course the USMC.) Can't wait.
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