The US fucking Marine Corps cuts infantry to field cyber? Why aren't we resourcing that like the medical field from the Navy?

Thanks to FormerDirtDart for the link!

via Marine Corps Times

The Marine Corps is doing away with its 0351 infantry assaultman military occupational specialty and phasing out the assault section of Marine rifle companies in an effort to build up communities such as cyber and electronic warfare, Military.com has learned.

Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, who confirmed planning in December while on an annual tour of deployed Marine elements around the world, said he expects the move to happen in the next three to five years as part of a slate of changes designed to help the Corps prepare for future fights.

The 0351 infantry assaultman, one of the Marine Corps' five core infantry positions, is tasked with breaching, demolition, and rocket fire against fortified positions. Assaultmen carry the MK-153 shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon, or SMAW.

Story here. 

Do you get the total disconnect here?  HQMC is pushing the idea that fighting in a MegaCity is unavoidable.  Now we're getting rid of our hip pocket breaching and demolition bubbas?

Even more irritating is the fact that we have yet to know what cyber and electronic warfare specialists are suppose to do...or rather how they fit into the Marine Corps way of war.

According to Marine Corps doctrine Marine Air delivers our electronic warfare set piece.  How cyber is gonna help in the assault or defense is beyond me, but why hasn't anyone asked the basic question....why is the Marine Corps trying to get into the cyber business in the first place!

We leverage medical care via Navy Corpsmen and use their hospitals and doctors.  Those bastards are so shit hot that they're just confused Marines that got led astray by Navy recruiters!

We could easily do the same with cyber and electronic warfare.  Have the Navy provide the training and have a school to get them up to Fleet Marine standards and leverage the whole thing off the Navy's money pot!

This is an idiot move.

I thought Neller was hitting his stride but this is batshit crazy!