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A Marine rocket and missile battalion with a legacy stretching back to World War II is set to deactivate in March as part of an effort to modernize the Marine Corps’ artillery.
The deactivation of the Camp Pendleton, California-based 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, comes as the Marine Corps is shifting its artillery away from traditional capabilities, as directed by the Corps’ 2020 modernization plan Force Design 2030.The battalion was the first in the Corps to be dedicated to firing the high mobility artillery rocket system, or HIMARS.
Now, the Marine Corps is prioritizing a ground-launched anti-ship missile capability, the Navy/Marine Corps expeditionary ship interdiction system, or NMESIS, which means the active component is divesting of some HIMARS, according to Marine spokesman Maj. Eric Flanagan.
Again getting rid of capability to become single mission Coastal Artillery.
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A Marine rocket and missile battalion with a legacy stretching back to World War II is set to deactivate in March as part of an effort to modernize the Marine Corps’ artillery.
The deactivation of the Camp Pendleton, California-based 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, comes as the Marine Corps is shifting its artillery away from traditional capabilities, as directed by the Corps’ 2020 modernization plan Force Design 2030.The battalion was the first in the Corps to be dedicated to firing the high mobility artillery rocket system, or HIMARS.
Now, the Marine Corps is prioritizing a ground-launched anti-ship missile capability, the Navy/Marine Corps expeditionary ship interdiction system, or NMESIS, which means the active component is divesting of some HIMARS, according to Marine spokesman Maj. Eric Flanagan.
Again getting rid of capability to become single mission Coastal Artillery.
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