The Marine Corps has gotten rid of our regular and reserve tank units and many of our artillery units. The idea is that we will be fighting on islands in the Pacific and that we are light infantry. Tanks are too heavy and too vulnerable. We can fight with missiles.

I think that is misguided.  We fought major land wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and who knows where we will fight again?  We fight in every clime and place. Tanks and more arty may be needed. 

And the Ukrainian Russian war is using many tanks, with calls for more tanks. They are losing many tanks to precision weapons, but they are still using them and they want more tanks. So here we have a war in 2023 and tanks and arty are still important.

I propose that the Marine Corps reconstitute our reserve tank units. Low cost insurance for an unknown future. The units can be dual hatted - used as tanks or infantry as needed. Every Marine is a rifleman, after all.

And we could do the same thing for our reserve arty units. 

The sooner we do this, the better, while we can still get the gear back and 

before we lose the expertise that we have. 

And while we are at it, the Marine Corps should experiment with much smaller remote controlled ATV like tanks. Something that you can use for the assault, packing a great deal of firepower, but without a human crew. It can be much smaller and unarmored. Our reserve tank units could field these,

      Note - I spent 32 years in the Marine Corps, regular and reserve, and was mostly a commo, so I don't want people to                4                 think I am an expert in tanks or arty. I just know they are big and mean and I want them on my side. You can contact me                             at craighullinger@gmail.com