The US Army got its Land Based Tomahawk Battery setup before the USMC ....They're out Marine-ing the Marine Corps

via USNI News

Last week, the Army stood up its second Typhon battery at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., based on launchers used on Navy guided-missile warships.

Delta Battery is the latest missile unit to join the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force’s (MDTF) Strategic Fires Battalion. Composed of batteries from the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, Delta Battery is slated to operate the ground-based Typhon missile system. Also known as the Strategic Mid-Range Fires System, its Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles cover the range gap of 310 to 1,800 miles between the MDTF’s Precision Strike Missile and Dark Eagle Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon

During the activation ceremony, Lt. Col. Benjamin Blane, commander of the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, emphasized Delta Battery’s capability and contribution to deterrence the Indo-Pacific.

“The activation of Delta Battery, 5-3 FA expands our Long-Range Fires Battalion capacity to support our Joint Indo-Pacific Mission – providing a credible, land-based maritime strike capability. Elements of this battery are already projected to operate in the Pacific later this year,” said Blane in the activation’s press release.

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Upfront.

I despise FD2030.  I think it takes us off mission and focuses the USMC on region against one foe for a fight against that foe (in that region) that may never come.

Having said that, if I'm wrong (and I'm not), it must be stunning to the advocates of this abomination that while practically breaking the Marine Corps family, destroying the bond between those that came before and those serving now, the freaking US Army quietly got the same shit we're aiming for WITHOUT destroying itself in the process.

Fuck FD2030 advocates.  The damage they've done is immeasurable.  The concept they're championing is stupid beyond belief.

They are as bad as the Muslim terrorists.  They're making our Marines virtual martyrs so that they can die in place so the rest of the force can zoom in ... while giving the politicians a reason to fight if the nation doesn't want to.

What do I mean?

If you have a Marine Littoral Regiment on the Philippine Islands and they get micro fragmented, how can ANY president not decide to engage in the defense of that nation?

Choice is removed if you have Marines dead and dying on the evening news.  

These are foreign entanglement forces and nothing else.  They can't kill.  They are useless for recon in this era.  They are designed to die in place.