Army plans to send tank over longest-ever modular pier during beach assault in Australia

 via Stars & Stripes

Two U.S. cargo ships waited patiently about 6 miles off northeastern Australia on Thursday, their crews preparing rapidly for a massive logistics drill that would mark several firsts for the U.S. Army.

Crews aboard the USNS Bob Hope and USNS Fisher were building an 1,800-foot-long modular pier to provide access to remote beaches and enable U.S. forces to land in enemy territory or locations without an available port, according to the lead planner for the project, Army Maj. Ryan Campbell, joint operations officer for 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary).

“In this scenario, we don’t have access to a port. So, essentially, we’re creating one,” he told Stars and Stripes on Thursday.

A useful wartime stratagem, similar over-the-shore logistics projects came in handy during humanitarian missions. The Army used modular piers following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and again during Operation Deep Freeze 2019, when soldiers delivered supplies to the National Science Foundation at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, Campbell said.

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Nature and the DoD hates a void.  The USMC created a void with Force Design 2030.  The defensive, one theater, one enemy, recon/counter recon mindset that has been adopted by Marine Corps leadership will have knock on/unintended consequences.

This is one of them.

The USMC never had to worry about its existence BEFORE this monstrosity.

Now?

I predict in 5 to 10 years without a course correction the US Army will occupy Navy amphibs, the USMC will be relegated to ONLY the Pacific (rightfully so since Berger and his idiots think that's the only region that exists) and we'll finally see the bean counters come after end strength and the Corps will be cut to 100K.

The good thing?

If the Marine Corps won't do it then the US Army will.