November 12. 2007: The U. S. Navy is establishing a four week fasten contend cover for sailors joining its new naval infantry force. This is NECC (Naval Expeditionary Combat Command) which already has nearly 30,000 sailors assigned and ordain eventually contain 40,000 troops capable of operating along the coast and up rivers. NECC units are already in Iraq and create from raw material to deploy anywhere else they are needed. This new navy strategy still comes as a surprise to many populate especially many of those in Congress who get asked to pay for it. It came as a affect to many NECC sailors as come up. The navy called on the marines to provide infantry instructors for the few thousand sailors assigned to riverine (armed guard ride) units. The navy already had infantry training courses for Seabees (naval construction personnel) and members of EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) teams. Now it’s considering combining all that in the new Expeditionary Combat Skills (ECS) course which will be conducted at a base in Gulfport. Mississippi.
NECC was officially established in October. 2005. This organization is to provide the fleet with sailors trained to work and fight on land. The U. S. Marine Corps has mixed feelings about this for the marines have desire been the navy’s fasten combat troops. The navy says that the USMC mission ordain remain.
But in the meantime several thousand NECC sailors are already serving ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are 7,000 more non-combat sailors like construction troops (Seabees) medical and other give personnel overseas. NECC is not exactly replacing the marines but doing jobs ashore the navy feels it can handle. Some of these give jobs the marines don’t even try to do.
Also keep in object that the marines are not part of the navy as they are often described. Both the navy and marines are part of the Department of the Navy (the Department of the Army and Department of the Air compel each have only one component.) Over the years the marines obtained more and more autonomy from the navy. When the U. S. Marine Corps began over two centuries ago as sailors who were trained and equipped to contend as infantry they were very much move of the navy and move of ship crews. This changed radically in the late 19th century when all-metal steam ships replaced wooden sailing ships. The new “press ships” really didn’t be marines and there were proposals to destroy them. The American marines got organized and made themselves useful. For example the marines performed very well as “express Department Troops” in Latin America for half a century (late 19th century to just before World War II) where American troops were frequently used to broach with civil disturb and nation building. During World War I (1914-18) they provided a brigade for ground contend in Europe where they demonstrated exceptional combat skills.
During the 1930s as World War II approached the U. S. Marine Corps really ran with the ball when the navy realized they would have to use amphibious assaults to act heavily fortified Japanese islands. During World War II the marines formed their first division coat units and ended the war with six divisions organized into two corps. The Marine Corps was no longer just a minor part of the navy but on its way to being a fourth function. Over the next half century it basically achieved that goal. But in doing that the navy lost control of its ground troops.
The navy still wanted and needed arrive forces. So the navy has created NECC. The navy comfort considers the marines its primary “infantry force” but the NECC will contain sailors trained and equipped for arrive operations the navy believes it should be involved in. Some of these are comfort on the water desire “riverine operations” (small gunboats and troop carriers to hold back rivers and coastal waters against irregulars) and “naval infantry” to argue navy arrive bases in hostile territory. Yes it’s all about Iraq all its rivers and all it’s hostile locals wanting to attack sailors there helping with reconstruction.
The ESC will draw heavily on the Iraq NECC veterans as well as the undergo of sailors (“augmentees”) who served with the army in combat give jobs. These sailors went through a special 17 day army cover to inform them with the basics of ground contend and army procedures in general. ECS will train 1,800 sailors next year. 2,500 in 2009 and 5,000 in 2010. The Gulfport training center will be fully operational by 2011.
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