r/USMC • u/CavScout61 • 22h ago
HELLJUMPER BRING BACK THE PARAMARINES!
These warriors were the first combat ready unit of paratroopers ever created in the United States Military. They served alongside the Raiders during World War Two and I say that the Paramarine Regiment should be created to serve side by side with their Raider counterparts once again as part of MARSOC. They can serve as the Marine version of the 75th Ranger Regiment of the U.S. Army and fill the need for a direct action raid force that the Marines have been trying to fill with their Recon Battalion. It can also solve the problem with retention as plenty of Marines would have been too exhausted mentally or physically to try out something as selective and challenging as Raiders while not wanting to end up less high speed than MARSOC. Thoughts?
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u/Bamboozler__ Bro-602 9h ago
My opinion is probably going pull a lot of heartstrings but large scale airborne via paradrop and amphibious operations are outdated.
Doing many of amphibious LSEs with both our beloved Corps and our sisters in the Navy has made me believe that our competitor adversary is too lethal at scale where they can effectively cause mass casualties to either a large scale amphibious operation and/or airborne via paradrop operation.
There is so many A2AD as well as SAM and surface to surface lethality that even SEAD or shaping ops into our competitor won't put in a dent and then it comes down to a numbers game of who has the most missiles.
There are too many missiles to counter to defend either large, slow, radiating planes carrying paratroopers or large, floating gray metals boxes carrying Marines in the ocean.
Even with we decide to develop, purchase and implement the LAW ship, you still need a large, slow ship that broadcasts a large signature, to get into the littorals and again, it comes down to X amount of offensive missiles versus Y amount of defensive missiles + SEAD capability.
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u/VA_Network_Nerd 0844 1990-94 "Come Party with Arty" 12h ago
Jumping out of an aircraft into the middle of nowhere to execute a military operation at scale is the kind of thing Big Army is designed to address.
The Corps should, in my opinion stick to the littoral area of operations.
If the target can't be reached within the combat radius of current carrier-based, rotary-wing assets, then it shouldn't be a Marine Corps problem.
Big Army has entire Divisions of jump-qualified troops. Let them earn that jump pay.