FINALLY! Adult leadership is returning to the Marine Corps! The "Thundering Third" is saved from deactivation as are other storied Marine Corps units. via Marine Corps Times...
...spokesman for Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Maj. Anton Semelroth, said this adjustment will leave the service with 24 infantry battalions. It saves 8th Marine Regiment, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, along with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines; 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines; and 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines.One problem though.
Officials changed course, Semelroth said, due to the demand for Marines to support commanders overseeing military activity throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The decision was made last summer, he added.
These specialized units are known as special purpose Marine air-ground task forces, or SPMAGTFs. Plans call for building them around a rotating headquarters element composed of Marine expeditionary unit and regimental headquarters.
The Marine Corps is still having issues with the command and control of the MEU and SPMAGTF-CR. Even without that bastardized unit (SPMAGTF-CR) their would still be manpower issues.
By my math you will have infantry Marines deployed on an almost 1 for 1 basis between deployment and home unless there is either a bigger plus up in Marines or a reduction in deployed units.
As things currently stand the SPMAGTF-CR's are a solution in search of a problem. The right move is to enhance the Marine Expeditionary Units by adding a Mobile Landing Platform configured as a Afloat Forward Staging Base.
Unfortunately HQMC is not listening.
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