Marine Corps will reinvent itself 'to reflect America,' top general says
By: By Kyle Morris
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A top general for the Marine Corps says the force is working to reinvent itself in an attempt "to reflect America" and the current values embraced by society today.
The remarks on an overhaul to address diversity and troop retainment in the Marine Corps were made by Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.
According to Berger, Marines will work "to reflect America, to reflect the society we come from," adding that the decision is not one related to being "woke" or politically correct.
"Our advantage militarily is on top of our shoulders," Berger said. "It's not actually our equipment. We are better than anybody else, primarily because we don't all think exactly alike. We didn't come from the same backgrounds."
In his new plan, dubbed Talent Management 2030 , Berger outlines how the force will work to improve recruitment efforts and increase career flexibility.
"The most important element of this report is the individual Marine," Berger stated in the document. "Transitioning to a talent management system will enable us to better harness and develop the unique skills and strengths of our Marines, improve the performance of our units in competition and combat, and ensure that we remain ‘most ready when the Nation is least ready,’ today and into the future."
The new plan will also work to ensure that the corps, as a whole, is "more intelligent, physically fit, cognitively mature, and experienced."
"The capabilities that we think we're going to need are a force that's able to operate much more distributed, much more spread out than perhaps we're accustomed to in the past, using a different set of technologies than we had five or 10 or 15 years ago," he said.
Physical fitness is also a focus in the plan, noting that boot camp will work to implement the "the same challenge for officers and for Officer Candidate School." Berger also noted that the change would take time and will not happen overnight.
"We are a purely combat force," he said. "We were built under a different set of circumstances, but that is changing."
An estimated 75% of troops leave the Marine Corps following their first four-year term.
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Here is yet another woke flag officer pandering to the progressives in charge. He is a disgrace to the uniform he wears and an embarrassment to the Marine Corps.
He says the force is working to reinvent itself in an attempt "to reflect America" and the current values embraced by society today. Who's values? The radical left's?
"The most important element of this report is the individual Marine," Berger stated in the document. "Transitioning to a talent management system will enable us to better harness and develop the unique skills and strengths of our Marines, improve the performance of our units in competition and combat, and ensure that we remain ‘most ready when the Nation is least ready,’ today and into the future."
That's always been true. Tell us what is going to be different?
The new plan will also work to ensure that the corps, as a whole, is "more intelligent, physically fit, cognitively mature, and experienced."
The Marine Corps is all of those things. As it stands, the Corps should be able to take a 250 lb slob into basic training and turn out a 180 lb piece of steel.
Physical fitness is also a focus in the plan, noting that boot camp will work to implement the "the same challenge for officers and for Officer Candidate School." Berger also noted that the change would take time and will not happen overnight.
What is this change?
I fear that the Corps will become a politically correct campus and brave young men will be less inclined to enlist. So it goes with everything the left touches.
Trump nominated someone woke? I'm shocked!
Did you bother to follow the links? Try this one:
https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/142/Users/183/35/4535/Talent%20Management%202030_November%202021.pdf?ver=E88HXGUdUQoiB-edNPKOaA%3d%3d
Judging by the questions that he asked, it's clear that either he didn't read the link OR he's being willfully obtuse.
Again, as with so many of the articles you seed, instead of vetting the content, you swill the pablum spewed by RW authors you rely on to come to your unfounded conclusions.
NOWHERE in the interview cited in the seed did Gen. David Berger say ANYTHING about 'the current values embraced by society today.'
The author made that shit up from whole cloth.
Of course, you don't actually care about the FACTS as long as a fabricated claim bolsters your agenda.
I didn't know you served. What branch of the military?
o reinvent itself in an attempt "to reflect America" and the current values embraced by society today.
So a court martial if you make a joke about having to wait for food.
What did he say that is a disgrace? It certainly wasnt in this article.
The right wingers are in tears about "reflecting" America.
Yes, there are now openly gay marines. Get over it!
Josh Hawley ain't getting over it and has gone all pedal to the metal over it.
As long as the Corps doesn’t try to implement more special classes like progressives want, they will be fine.
We can only hope.
Love the pic, it's very ... woke.
I have faith in the Corps.
They go woke, all bets are off in this country.
What 'special classes' are you talking about Sparty?
Nothing you’d [Deleted agree with.]
Oh dear ... different 'woke' training:
"Royal Marines commandos 'dominated' US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today.
British forces took part in a five-day mock battle at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California , one of the largest military training areas in the world, and achieved a decisive victory against their American counterparts.
The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent of the training area, after beginning with less than 20 per cent."
Good, then Europe doesn't need to call the US the next time they want to take a third world shit box like Libya.
Lol .... classic fake news.
Next .......
You know exercises are never cut short by victors or losers but there are always winners...
Resets are more likely at the beginning rather than close to the end.
Transportation for all has been set in stone for months, so they will continue.
Your own link is ripe with veterans offering believable opinions based on similar experiences.
and the truth lies somewhere between the biased reports by both countries' journalists.
No worse than the competitiveness between the individual service papers used to be.
The seeded article in this piece is clearly exaggerated crap. Not even close to the real truth. Classic fake news reporting
That was the point. Not that there wasn’t some benefit derived from the exercise for all involved.
Take it up with the Brits then.
Don’t have too. I’m not questioning their competency, only the British media’s.
That said, I’ve trained with Royal Marines in the past. How about you?
Nope.
Yeah, didn’t think so.
I wonder if they think they could take that training exercise success against a US military force to a real battlefield? {chuckle}
I'm sure that they do since the UK Royal Marines are rated as one of the best in the world. The Netherlands Marines are also very highly rated and both services date back to the mid-1600s.
The Canadian's don't have a Marine Corps per se but their special forces, namely Joint Task Force 2 are considered some of the best in the world.
The UK Marines have been embedded with the US Marines since 2015 and vice versa in cross-training exercises as have the Dutch Marines.
That's the point of the joint training exercises isn't it?, it's also why we've been doing joint training for nigh on 70 years now....
It also identifies the special troops (individuals) over the average troops... figures out what works and what doesn't most of the time...
The point the brainless media was trying to make is they are so much better than we are, or we are in some way deficient compared to them...
I say they need to go back to their board game and find a few more clues...
It was the British equivalent of our National Enquirer, being patriotic prigs.
To quote someone else, there's a lot of that going around here...