Who here remembers the roots of the current day Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions? Devil puppies sit down. Grown folks are talking!
A quick recap.
War in the Middle East was all the rage. Marine Corps leadership was concerned that the USMC would get involved in a war in the desert against highly mechanized forces and be either truck, helicopter or foot mobile. In the environment envisioned that would just not do so they bought LAV-25's off the shelf, called the battalions Light Armored Infantry (LAI) and we were set.
Or so we thought. The problem?
Too light on infantry to hold ground. So back to the drawing board, a change in name and we have the LAR we know and love today. If we were being honest we'd call them Cavalry units and be done with it but that's another discussion.
Now to the issue at hand. If we're going to be cutting units. If we're going to have to lose forces, and if the MPC is coming online, then does it make sense to keep the LAV-25A2 and the LAR Battalions?
I don't know. Just throwing it out there.
