Marine review focuses on life after Afghan war

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The Force Structure Review Group will be influenced by the Corps’ experience in Afghanistan. Above, a Marine with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, leaps across a stream July 5 while searching for improvised explosive devices near Patrol Base Gorgak.


Marine review focuses on life after Afghan war
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Aug 3, 2010 18:59:52 EDT

Even as combat operations are causing the highest casualty rates of the war in Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has begun to examine the size and shape of a post-war force, a top service official said Tuesday.

“We’re turning our thinking to resetting the Corps — that’s the code word — and it has to do with what do we want the Marine Corps to look like once we’re out of Afghanistan and assuming there are no infantry battalions in sustained combat operations anywhere in the world,” Navy Undersecretary Bob Work told a lunchtime audience in Washington.

“The basis for this thinking is going to be a Force Structure Review Group (FSRG),” Work said. “It’s going to be done primarily at MCCDC and the Marine Corps staffs. It will have input from the outgoing and the incoming Marine Corps commandants.”

Gen. Jim Amos, the current assistant commandant of the Corps, has been nominated to relieve outgoing commandant Gen. James Conway later this summer.

The study, Work added, will consider the requirements of major defense planning documents including the Quadrennial Defense Review, completed earlier this year, as well as incorporating “lessons the Marine Corps has learned over the last seven years of war.”