Modernizing infantry Marines
Marine infantry units are getting new stuff. About time. The Army needs to follow suit.
The Corps is on a major push to overhaul how its fundamental basic unit operates in battle — providing grunts with modernized equipment and new roles and responsibilities.
After nearly 17 years of fighting in *war-torn regions like Iraq and *
Afghanistan, the development comes as the lines between conventional infantry forces and America’s elite special operators have *increasingly blurred.
In late December, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters that conventional forces would start assuming greater roles in mission sets that were once the purview of special operations forces.