Benefits Of The Joint Community, Services, Defense, And Coalition Partners

In recent history, the Marine Corps offered only limited options to the combatant commander to respond to crises. This response capability was usually resident within the Marine Expeditionary Unit in the form of noncombatant evacuation operations, foreign humanitarian assistance, and embassy reinforcement. However, as the global climate has shifted from a Cold War, or even OIF I, paradigm to one of small conflicts or crises of short duration. Within this context the Marine Corps continues to seek to match its unique capability sets to the dynamic challenges of the 21st century, developing concepts such as Expeditionary Force 21, which seeks to provide options for contingencies through globally dispersed assets and capabilities.

Logistics at the strategic level of U.S. operations is important in posturing and maintaining the Army to accomplish combined arms maneuver and wide area security. Transportation and maintenance contractors are vital to U.S. missions and provide valuable

Since 1985, eleven different versions of the High Mobility, Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) have been in service. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is being developed by the Army and the Marine Corps as a successor to the HMMWV. The Department of Defense (DoD) initiated the JLTV program to replace its aging fleet of the HMMWV. The purpose of this essay is to determine if the high cost of the JLTV should preclude it from replacing the HMMWV as outlined in the 2010 Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Strategy. Because of the cost, an inability to meet joint requirements and the presence of feasible alternatives, the Department of Defense should not continue acquisition of the JLTV.

NAVAIR is headquartered in Patuxent River, MD, but has eight different locations throughout the continental United States that provide continuous Atlantic and Pacific fleet support. NAVAIR is commanded by Vice Admiral Paul Grosklags; however, Mr. Garry Newton is the senior most civilian member (NAVAIR Leadership). The joint operations between military and civilian personnel allows for ideas to be maximized and fair in distribution to the public. Plus, the delegation of leadership is vital to the success, improvement, and development of any individual or organization. According to the Department of Defense in the United States and NAVAIR, NAVAIR’s mission is to “provide full life-cycle support of naval aviation aircraft, weapons and systems that are operated by Sailors and Marines” (About NAVAIR). The significance of this is that Sailors and Marines are guaranteed continuous support from NAVAIR. With constant support, Sailors and Marines are able to perform their duties on naval ships, land-based operations, and naval aircraft with excellence. NAVAIR explicitly states that “because we develop, deliver, and sustain aircraft, weapons, and systems – on time, on cost, with proven capability and reliability – Sailors and Marines succeed in every mission and return safely home” (About NAVAIR). Since NAVAIR provides diverse support to the Navy and Marine Corps, wartime

While a commander’s staff conducts planning at any level, whether it is strategic, operational, or tactical, the importance of identifying both theirs and the adversary’s center of gravity (COG) is a critical part of the planning process. Three factors should be carefully analyzed in order to gain a full understanding of the COG; they are critical capabilities, critical requirements and critical vulnerabilities (U.S. Office of the CJCS 11 August 2011, III-24). Although a COG can be attacked directly, the indirect approach which seeks to destroy or neutralize the COG by attacking an adversary’s critical vulnerabilities can be a more efficient use of available resources. The United States Marine Corps’ Warfighting publication MCDP 1 draws a direct correlation between a COG and its critical vulnerability by stating, “we should focus our efforts against a critical vulnerability, a vulnerability that, if exploited, will do the most significant damage to the enemy 's ability to resist us” (United States Marine Corps 1997, 47). The Marine Corps favors the indirect approach to defeating an adversary’s COG because the functions assigned to them by the Department of Defense (DoD) require expeditionary operations and expeditionary forces typically are limited in size, assets, and resources driving them to target an adversary’s critical vulnerabilities.

In September 2011, the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee voted to cancel the Army and Marine Corps' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) in their version of the fiscal year 2012 defense bill (Munoz, 2011). This measure could have completely shut down efforts to replace a thirty year-old fleet of Humvees, loyal but potentially outmoded tactical wheeled vehicles. The Army's Modernized Expanded Capacity Vehicle program has been a project set to replace the High Mobility, Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) family in the works for years. The project, however, continues to be stymied by budgetary constraints. Per-vehicle costs for the JLTV begin at $250,000 and are likely to climb, as Lockheed-Martin secured a preliminary contract for engineering, design, and development. The high cost of the JLTV does preclude it from completely replacing the HMMWV, and yet cost does not preclude the JLTV from supplementing the Army's fleet. A middle-ground solution is the best method of maximizing initial investments, while also banking on the robustness of national security.

The subsequent sections will propose how smaller and better-combined joint forces maintain lethality, mobility, and survivability. In spite of some associated risks, force adjustment is an opportunity to form an aggregate joint force. Nevertheless, these contractions will not mirror equally among the services. The result will be a lean joint force that maintains the ability to defeat conventional and asymmetric threats in all domains. Discussed in this order, Air Force, Army, United States Marine Corps (USMC), and Navy general structure will revolve around the integration of skills and capabilities. Next, discussion of the four categories of risk involved in the transition to Joint Force 2020 include operational risk, force management

In addition to Talisman Sabre 2013, I Corps developed and tested Pacific Pathways, which is a model similar to the Marines’ UDP. I Corps will deploy a HQs, tactical force, with an aviation detachment and enablers will deploy to the USPACOM AOR to participate in exercises and to respond to a contingency. Therefore, the regional alignment of I Corps, represents an opportunity to scale

Deter war. Keep peace. Protect the country. These goals are the mission of the Department of Defense, or the DoD. The Department of Defense is organized well, and keeps all of its branches in order. They employ a large number of soldiers and civilians, and impact the economy. Some controversies have arisen, and questions have been posed about if the Department is too big to regulate itself. Does the Department of Defense benefit the United States? Despite being well organized and having a large impact on the economy, the Department has not been without controversy, leading to the question, is the Department of Defense benefiting the United States?

As Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford emphasized in his February 26, 2015 statement to the house subcommittee on defense, “The challenges of the future operating environment will demand that our Nation maintains a force-in-readiness that is capable of global response.” Given today's fiscally constrained environment, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) continues to experiment with new tactics, techniques, and procedures to enable mission efficiency and improve combat effectiveness. Recognizing the gap between traditional crisis response capacity and demand, geographic combatant commanders (GCC) require alternative and creative solutions to traditional employment challenges. The Expeditionary Force 21 concept is one way the Marine Corps is answering that challenge. Expeditionary Force 21 is the USMC’s vision and response to threats in the contemporary environment while observing the limitations of

As a one of the world’s top maritime power, United States declared it’s “National Military Strategy”. Two essential principles of NMS is forward presence and crisis response. Based on the NMS, Navy and Marine Corps

As a result of conflicting requirements from the Services and unforeseen excess of the Average Unit Manufacturing Cost, the JLTV program was threatened to its termination during its development. The protection, configurations, payload, weight and reliability requirements were changed during the process that were considered to be uncommon compared to the other programs. For example, “DOD had planned to award two contracts for the EMD phase, which was scheduled to last 24 months, but instead opted for a 48-month-long EMD phase before awarding Production and Deployment contracts in the second quarter of FY2016.”

It has been a serious process for many organizations to raise capital which automatically has business and financial risks involved.

I feel that I have benefitted immensely from the partnership program. Volunteering at the hospital has given me an inside look into the different departments of the hospital. I job shadowed at ACMH my tenth grade year and this program has given me a much better look at the job of a nurse. I am going to nursing school in the fall and this opportunity has allowed me to see the different departments and I was not aware of how many there were. At any department that I went to, I found them interesting and engaging. The nurses, nurse aids, and staff were all nice and very informative. The nurses and nurse aids were more than willing to tell you what they were doing and why. In the Ambulatory Surgery department for example, the surgeons told me what

Finally, the reduction of BCTs leads to a fear question what is the overall JLTVs requirements of the Army. In addition, it adds one more question about the cost of one vehicle since the Army might be forced to reduce the overall JLTVs requirements. Nevertheless, the Army should use all possible ways to keep with the planned budget for JLTV acquisition. The NATO allies and partners with the procurement of certain number of vehicles may help to keep the price at it was planned. Nevertheless, it would be far reaching investment into the U.S. Army and the allies interoperability.