They're going to need a bunch more Marines.

via Stars and Stripes.

The U.S. military wants to establish a permanent presence of up to 3,000 Marines at a Spanish air base that now serves as a temporary host for a task force of crisis-response troops supporting U.S. Africa Command, a Spanish newspaper said.
In early December, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a letter to Spanish authorities requesting permission to keep the Morón, Spain-based Marine quick-reaction force in the country, the newspaper El Pais reported last week.
According to the paper, the U.S. plan is to maintain a presence of roughly 850 Marines in Morón but allow for a surge of up to 3,000 troops in the event of a crisis.
The unit, a Marine Air-Ground Task Force focused on crisis response, formed in 2013 in the wake of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. The team is mobilized periodically in connection with potential threats in Africa. The unit has supported U.S. evacuation efforts in South Sudan and Libya and has provided logistical support for U.S. anti-Ebola efforts in western Africa.

In March, the Defense Department announced it would boost its presence in Spain by adding more Marines to the MAGTF, which was slated to increase from 500 to 850 Marines.
The military’s current basing deal is expected to expire in April, which means a temporary extension could happen before a long-term basing agreement is reached, according to El Pais.

So we have our normal MEU deployments, UDP to Okinawa and now Australia...and now we're adding in Spain.  This is in addition to the Marines that will be sent to the new front in the war on terror in Iraq, FAST Company, MARSOC, Marine Security Guard Force, Recruiting, Drill Instructor Duty, Instructor Duty at SOI....How the hell is the Marine Corps going to supply enough people for all these taskings before the force burns out?

How can a force of approx 175,000 support this many deployments especially since the powers that be have been shedding Infantry Battalions the way a snake sheds its skin?

We're gonna need a bunch more Marines or else this isn't going to work.

Someone didn't think this through.