Equipping the 21st Century Marine Corps: Alternative Equipping Strategies for Task-Organized Units

Abstract

In recent years, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) has used a variety of task-organized provisional units to meet increasing mission demands. These provisional units are defined as "service or combatant commander-directed temporary assembl[ies] of personnel and equipment organized for a limited time for accomplishment of . . . specific mission[s]." Like regular units, these units are manned, trained, and equipped to conduct a myriad of missions across the range of military operations. However, they are assembled in nontraditional ways from personnel and equipment sources across the Marine Corps.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1123254

Entities

People

  • Angelena Bohman
  • Duncan Long
  • Jonathan P. Wong
  • Joslyn Fleming
  • Kathryn Connor
  • Matthew W. Lewis
  • Michael J. Gaines
  • Rick Eden

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Readiness
  • Combat Support
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.