Re: APC Development and related topics.
The whole point of the Corps is a mobile reaction force. Why everything possible is air transportable by MV-22/CH-53/C-130s and standard assault transport shipping (vice cargo ships).
If you put enough armor on an APC to make it a "true" IFV it' s no longer easily transportable.
Same reason the USMC uses lots of helos and jump jets, no need to capture/build a full air base, any flat piece of ground will do.
A USMC MEU (an autonomous combat unit from battalion to division size) has enough supplies in it's logistics element for 90 days of operations (in theory). After that the US Army is suppose to have gotten there to take over operations.
The USMC is not intended or equipped for sustained heavy combat, that's what the US Army is for.
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