According to a release from Camp Lejeune, Marines and sailors have begun a series of exercises to better prepare the nation for modern-day combat.
The 2d Marine Division (2d MarDiv), Strike Fighter Squadron 105 (VFA-105), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) are participating in littoral exercises taking place off the East Coast and Atlantic waterways. It’s the second round of exercises the military personnel are experimenting and testing for better reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance concepts.
The exercises are in support of Force Design 2030, which aims to improve the way the military operates in combat to better thwart threats from the Pacific and around the globe. Force Design 2030 began in 2020 as a 10-year modernization initiative. It essentially divests legacy systems and functions, including tanks, the military has used over the last century.
Littoral Exercises I (LEX I) wrapped last month on Camp Lejeune, and now LEX II will take place to help strengthen the first round of lessons learned. Training events will include surveillance, reconnaissance, and counter-reconnaissance operations in seaside environments. Multiple vessels off the North Carolina coast will become a simulated enemy, at which lethal miniature aerial missile systems and organic precision fires-infantry will be tested.
Marines and sailors will deploy scalable, mobile teams to help improve communications by “identifying, tracking, and then eliminating the threat.” The trainings help Marines better understand battlespace “to deter malign behavior, fight, and win in any clime or place,” a release noted.
Lessons of LEX II will help redefine Marine Corps operations in the future and give 2d MarDiv the opportunity “to judiciously evaluate, wargame, experiment, and refine abilities in order to contribute to the future force [the] Nation needs by 2030.”
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