Description: U.S. Marines assigned to the 1st Battalion, First Marine Regiment, receive a safety briefing before live-fire training at Graze Range, Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., April 23, 2010, during Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-10. The training was hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron (MAWTS) 1. Photo by Sgt Benjamin R. ReynoldsDoing What Matters With Less (Marine Corps) -- Marine Corps Gazette
Get rid of meaningless tasks and inefficiencies.
“America is not at war. Marines are at war while America is at the mall.” This is the solemn refrain of Marines who have been in the thick of the fight for nearly 9 years. As an institution, however, the Marine Corps has no stones to cast. Despite this longest period of continuous warfare fought by an all-volunteer force, the Marine Corps as an institution stubbornly remains a peacetime garrison bureaucracy. Marines and Marine units have accomplished a litany of valiant feats and key innovations since 2001, yet the institution as a whole has refused to come to terms with the fact that war demands prioritization and that a decade of war demands a thorough clearing of the bureaucratic deadwood that has accumulated in the peacetime Marine Corps.
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