Remember this simple fact about contested logistics. If they can't get supplies in, then they won't be able to get our wounded out...

The Future of Marine Corps Logistics

We can expect to be contested by future adversaries on the battlefield all the way to our industrial base - to sustain our forces on the front lines, we must modernize our logistics enterprise. @3rdMLG keeps us ready in the Indo-Pacific. pic.twitter.com/gyKFkyHlg3

— III MEF Marines (@IIIMEF) April 5, 2023

They keep talking logistics.

What's left unsaid is that if logistics is "hard" and they don't have the capability now, then they don't have the capability to get our wounded out.

These stealthy, low signature, STAND IN FORCE, recon/counter recon, missile shooting, and coast watching Marines will die ugly and not just from enemy action.

Accidents happen in the field.  Weird disease happens in the jungle. Critters of all types take bites out of humans in the jungle.  The list goes on.

Logistics?  Yeah its important but since actually identifying what the MLR is actually supposed to do in the modern era (except act as speed bumps to China and guarantee that any action against them ensures we're in full scale war) is beyond me, I'm focused on the ignored aspect of all of this.

The concept as it currently stands means the Golden Hour is dead.

It means that injuries that were survivable during the war on terror will not be with this force.

Marines dying ugly?  

When all is said and done that might turn out to be a fucked up mercy.