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GroundPounder

GroundPounder

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Flash said:
Past practice with Hamas and similar groups is not to do suicide by indirect fire.
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I will defer to your professional knowledge as it pertains to my original post.

I will stand by the generality that there are a several obvious ways to engage anything that big, and that close to the shore. The actors that thrive on chaos may be willing to give it a shot.
 
Griz882

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GroundPounder said:
I will defer to your professional knowledge as it pertains to my original post.

I will stand by the generality that there are a several obvious ways to engage anything that big, and that close to the shore. The actors that thrive on chaos may be willing to give it a shot.
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U.S. Army port operations in Gaza, eight weeks from now.

 
Uncle Fester

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ChuckMK23 said:
Do Navy CB's not have an exped capability just like this?
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Griz882 said:
This is primarily an army job. CBs do more formal construction and engineering.
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Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) is a huge mission set for the Army loggies and TRANSCOM guys. I’m sure there are some Navy and Marine guys in the game over there now but it’s always been a mainly Army mission.
 
TacticalTater

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Uncle Fester said:
Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) is a huge mission set for the Army loggies and TRANSCOM guys. I’m sure there are some Navy and Marine guys in the game over there now but it’s always been a mainly Army mission.
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Why is it that the Army has a primary task of building something the Navy will use?

Is this a WW2 type thing were they did it then and never gave up the job/funding/equipment?
 
Griz882

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TacticalTater said:
Why is it that the Army has a primary task of building something the Navy will use?

Is this a WW2 type thing were they did it then and never gave up the job/funding/equipment?
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Pretty much. The navy does have some capacity but their logistical focus is more like sea-basing rather than over-the-shore. Put very simply, the navy gets stuff across the big water and the army gets it the last few hundred yards to the ground troops (until a proper port is secured. But, just for the sake of fun fact time, the Army had more vessels than the navy during WWII, now they have about 120 or so.
 
Uncle Fester

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TacticalTater said:
Why is it that the Army has a primary task of building something the Navy will use?

Is this a WW2 type thing were they did it then and never gave up the job/funding/equipment?
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Little of that, bit of Transcom's mission of moving supplies the "final mile" up to operating forces. They got into the mission during WWII, creating harbors and piers where they weren't before (and that's been an Army Engineer mission since Bobby Lee was an Engineer) and doing near-shore and over-the-shore logistics.
 
ABMD

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Uncle Fester said:
Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) is a huge mission set for the Army loggies and TRANSCOM guys. I’m sure there are some Navy and Marine guys in the game over there now but it’s always been a mainly Army mission.
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JLOTS is a primary mission of NAVELSG. Supply Corp
 
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Samuel B Roberts on her way home to the US aboard the Mighty Servant 2, after temporary repairs in Bahrain, 1988.

Went I went through basic DC school in 2000, the instructor was a salty DCCS who’d been a junior DCman on the Sammy B during the mine hit. He had a lot of hair-raising stories and pictures to share. Kept us ensigns riveted. Then I cruised on her on her second to last deployment. They made a point of sharing the lore of how the crew saved the ship with everyone who checked aboard. You could still see the scars around the weather decks from where they welded her back together.
 
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