Northern Viking 22. Marines assist sea battles!

 Once it was said of Marines..."We win battles"!  Now?  We assist in the sea battle?!?

via Navy.mil

U.S. Sailors and Marines joined multiple Allied Nations in kicking off U.S. Sixth Fleet’s Exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022.

Participating NATO Allied Nations include France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The combined forces bring significant capabilities across the air, land and at-sea domains.

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forces include the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) Amphibious Ready Group / 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft from Keflavik Air Base, the Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201), Sailors from Task Force 68 and the Virginia-class attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN 785).

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NV22 strengthens interoperability and force readiness between the U.S., Iceland and Allied Nations and enables execution of multi-domain command and control of joint and coalition forces in the defense of Iceland and the Sea Lines of Communication in the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap. The exercise includes amphibious landings, expeditionary and construction capability, search and rescue, and humanitarian assistance with forces demonstrating skills in events across multiple domains, climates, and vignettes to enhance interchangeability and interoperability. 

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How the mighty have fallen.  Fighting to become an independent service, back to being the Navy's bitch. From evolution to de-evolution.

We've almost gone full circle.  The only thing left to do is the reverse Tun Tavern.

Better to case the colors now and rename this new fucked up outfit.

"New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference as long as it's the Marine breed."

What Berger is building ain't the Marine breed.  Time to rebrand this thing and make a complete break with the past.