So yeah; apparently, we don't have the best-trained military in the world anymore. And if drastic changes aren't made in respose to this embarrassing loss, our military is only going to get worse.
It's the Marines and thier pride was damagedYeah it's always dumb seeing articles like this. Like these wargames are somehow freeform simulations like your RTS computer game.
"ZOMG they refloated sunk ships! The multimillion dollar exercise should've been cancelled early!"
"ZOMG the new tested weapons didn't work in the exercise but they proceeded with the training!"
Etc Etc...
I'm surprised the Marines actually made a comment on it. Usually these things go unchallenged in anything approaching official channels because the American military punching down on Allies and training partners is kind of a dumb thing to do anyways. Let the Indian Air Force celebrate getting an air-to-air simulated kill or whatever and let it lie.
It was 500 RMC worh some Dutch and various other countries in there.Whilst it is vaguely amusing and pride inducing from an Englishman's perspective, it must be made clear that the Royal Marines and the United States Marines are rather different from each other. The USMC is a "light infantry" formation, meant for spearheading attacks and of course amphibious landings. The Royal Marines are commandos who can do amphibious landings and ship borne operations as well.
The bread and butter of our commandos is slipping through enemy lines and causing mayhem, which is why they are feared with very good reason. In terms of "eliteness" in Her Majesty's Armed Forces, the Royal Marines are second only really to the SAS. This situation is entirely understandable. Causing a larger force to disintegrate is in the job description for a commando unit.
Indeed, had a detachment of the British Army been facing the Navy Seals (or god forbid, Delta Force), I'd have expected the reverse.
They're actually quite a bit more than a "light infantry" formation. The US Marines actually have their own ground attack aircraft, tanks, ships, and other support equipment. But your point remains true, the profile of the two is very different, with the US Marines being a larger, more complex force that is focused on taking and holding territory, not commando operations.The USMC is a "light infantry" formation, meant for spearheading attacks and of course amphibious landings.
They do not have tanks.They're actually quite a bit more than a "light infantry" formation. The US Marines actually have their own ground attack aircraft, tanks, ships, and other support equipment. But your point remains true, the profile of the two is very different, with the US Marines being a larger, more complex force that is focused on taking and holding territory, not commando operations.
The USMC do both.The US Marines are almost an army unto themselves (near two hundred thousand crayon eaters, God help us all), I didn't quite get that across. But as S'task did point out, I am correct in that they fulfill a fundamentally different role to the Royal Marines.
Once they were probably quite similar (as all marine contingents are. They were once "the army at sea"), but I think they started wildly diverging in the 20th century.
Tanks.Didn’t the USMC dump all its tanks and heavy weapons recently?