Marine Corps Politics. General Gray comes out against Amos...

via Marine Corps Times...

Magee and DuVall aren’t the only Marines with concerns over the direction of the service’s amphibious procurement strategy. Marine Corps Times has confirmed that Amos received questions about his procurement priorities during the annual General Officer’s Symposium at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., in September and again at a meeting with retired three- and four-star generals.
Magee told Marine Corps Times that the generals’ discontent with Amos’ answers to those tough questions prompted Gen. Al Gray, the former commandant and a long-time friend, to encourage him not only to write the position paper but also to reach out to prospective commandants and other generals to lobby for a change in direction. Gen. Joseph Dunford was nominated to become the next Marine Corps commandant at about the time this effort was getting underway.
Gray refused to confirm Magee’s story, even off the record, but Marine Corps Times has confirmed that he’s been conducting speaking engagements recently around the Washington, D.C., area, and gave a closed-door procurement talk to active-duty officers at Quantico.

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I told ya.  Ya didn't believe me but I told ya.

The entire Marine Corps is NOT pleased with Amos' leadership and now its come out that the vacillation with the ACV project is the focus of that discontent.

Quite honestly, the plan while flawed is in keeping with the direction that was set out with the cancellation of the EFV.  We would procure an amphibious combat vehicle tracked and would augment it with a wheeled vehicle.

So the inside politics is that the issue isn't the Marine Personnel Carrier.  The issue is with the Marine Corps as Amos has it oriented.  The idea of an Air Assault, 101st seagoing Marine Corps is just wrong.

The talk that defenses against ships are so ferocious that we must rely on airpower...while ignoring the fact that formidable anti-ship missiles will be covered by serious air defenses is pure craziness.

Gray came out in public, but the battle is raging in private.

Amos is surrounded.  He has few supporters and is witnessing an entire Marine Corps waiting for him to retire.

Amos failed basic leadership one oh one.

Never leave a command in worse shape than when you took over.

He did, and now we're all waiting to clean up the mess.