They want to use the entire III MEF as a stand in force???

 via Marine Corps News

“There’s been a lot of focus on the MLR, very appropriately so, what we were trying to do in Azure Dragon is validate our ability to stand in as a MEF, as a (Marine Air Ground Task Force),” Bierman said.

But having the force, a unit with 25,000 Marines, running as the stand in force sets up units such as the regiments to better exploit enemy weaknesses, Bierman said.

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I was wrong.

I thought they were willing to sacrifice an MLR to the war god in order to pull the US into a war with China.

Nope.

They want to go big.  They want to put an entire MEF in the line of unrelenting fire to make sure the American people react emotionally instead of rationally to China's effort to retake Taiwan.

Amazing.

Plus they're trying to use the example of the Houthis as proof that the SIF concept works?  Grasping at fucking straws.

The entire Marine Corps leadership needs to be drug tested.