Ive not seen the battle plans here but @Helmsman nailed it... This isn't new.Are the Marines going to tie themselves to the pipes and oil tanks there? They will sleep in barracks and hang out in exposed trenches. If they stay in the facilities office or control rooms, those will be hit for sure.
The Iranians have missiles with an accuracy of 2m-5m, and the flight time from the mountains above and behind the shore to the Kharg island would be under a minute.
21st century war, new realities, requires new tactics.
Tactics Techniques and Procedures are updated, and new countermeasures must be implemented... But this would fall in the mission set of the Marine Corps.
Again, I don't see this as a likely course of action but I could be wrong.
I just found this.
This is a great breakdown of caps/lims of a MEU.
I deployed with the CO if this MEU when I was a 1stLt and he was the BLT XO in 2017.I was on the USS WASP and he was on the USS San Antonio. Small world. Major Niedz was a good dude. Didn't know he had a silver star.
Last edited:



