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Eu particularmente fico curioso sobre como os britânicos conseguem ainda manter o interesse de seus cidadãos para o serviço militar nas forças armadas, principalmente para os que entram por baixo, como recrutas/soldados.
Para um pais que é a 5a ou 6a economia mundial e tem um índice de desenvolvimento humano enorme, fica complicado realmente conceber que alguém com todas as oportunidades educacionais e sociais propostas pelo poder público naquele país acabe escolhendo, vamos dizer assim, a vida militar.
No Brasil até se explica pela absoluta falta de oportunidades, educação e trabalho e pela exiguidade social em que a maioria está metida, mas este não é o caso britânico, muito pelo contrário. Aqui simplesmente do ponto de vista da mão de obra, não temos qualquer problema a vista pelo menos até uns 50 anos adiante, quando diz o IBGE, o país terá uma população idosa maior que a em atividade econômica. Bem, não é preciso dizer que o mundo em 2070 deve ser bem diferente do que temos aí hoje.
Embora eu não esteja lá para ver in loco, creio que será uma reviravolta interessante para um país deitado eternamente ao berço esplêndido, e que nunca ser preocupa com nada mesmo.
Enfim, altos salários não deve ser um dos maiores atrativos para os britânicos ralarem nos Royal Marines ou em qualquer outra tropa.
Deve ser algo que ainda atraia os jovens, algo de uma certa mística para aqueles que ainda creem nos valores castrenses, ou talvez, é só mesmo falta do que fazer.

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O RU tem umas Forças Armadas totalmente profissionais à décadas, como tal já criaram um sistema que lhes permite recrutar e ainda mais importante, reter os seus militares. Acima de tudo tem orçamento que lhes permite abrir vagas em número suficiente para renovar os seus quadros. Em Portugal para o próximo ano só vai abrir 2120 vagas, o que é manifestamente insuficiente! No meu tempo esse número seria as vagas por ano só para a Brigada Aerotransportada Independente.

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O RU tem umas Forças Armadas totalmente profissionais à décadas, como tal já criaram um sistema que lhes permite recrutar e ainda mais importante, reter os seus militares. Acima de tudo tem orçamento que lhes permite abrir vagas em número suficiente para renovar os seus quadros. Em Portugal para o próximo ano só vai abrir 2120 vagas, o que é manifestamente insuficiente! No meu tempo esse número seria as vagas por ano só para a Brigada Aerotransportada Independente.

Sim, um sistema que acredito só é possível a países muito ricos e com tradição profissionalizante de suas forças militares. Não é bem o nosso caso aqui, onde um recruta em SMO se muito recebe no máximo metade do salário mínimo, e um cabo ou soldado engajado recebe pouco mais que um salário mínimo, hoje equivalente a 188 dólares ou 156 Euros.

Por mais que muitos aqui defendam a profissionalização total das forças armadas este continua sendo um assunto tabu, mesmo dentro das forças militares, haja vista que os custos em pessoal são sempre ascendentes e queimam mais da metade do orçamento da defesa. Teria que haver mudanças significativas para mudar essa realidade, a começar por retirar do MD o gastos com pensão e aposentadorias. Mas esse já é outro assunto.

Hoje os valores pagos a oficiais e sargentos não é muito diferente do que se vê na iniciativa privada em determinadas áreas, mas é visível que a debandada de oficiais e praças das forças não tem uma solução imediata para estancar essa sangria, cada vez maior. E em adendo, muita gente por aqui tem usado as escolas militares como apenas um trampolim para conseguir uma boa formação e um diploma reconhecido e muito respeitado no mercado de trabalho. E isso é fato no MD e no governo. Só não costuma incomodar ninguém.

Tirando isso, o SMO continua sendo a válvula de escape da pobreza e falta de expectativas de vida para muitos aqui, principalmente nas fronteira, e nas regiões mais pobres. Isso significa mão de obra via de regra pouco ou nada profissional, quando não com formação deficiente, ou mesmo sem ela, já que o nível de escolaridade nestas regiões continua sendo coisa de 4o mundo...

Enfim, profissionalismos é bom e todo mundo quer, mas ainda é coisa para inglês fazer...

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ROYAL MARINES SCRUTINISE NEW TACTICS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT

Small teams of Royal Marines were unleashed on the Mojave Desert in California on exercises with the US Marine Corps that helped shape commando tactics of the future.

Marines from 40 Commando’s Charlie Company were formed into teams of 12 commandos and were tasked to work ‘deep in the battle space’ to wreak havoc on opposing USMC forces in a challenging training scenario.

This was part of the unscripted warfighting exercise for which Charlie Company were acting as unconventional enemy forces, tasked and equipped to disrupt their adversary at every turn.

The commando teams operated around Hidalgo City, a huge town otherwise known as Range 220 that was purpose-built for desert urban training exercises and is one of the largest such facilities in the world.

There, they blended into their environment and created chaos, destroying advancing enemy armoured vehicles, mortar lines, command posts and aircraft using a range of weaponry and developing Future Commando Force tactics to great effect.

Alongside a US Army Special Forces team, the commandos held Hidalgo City – near Twentynine Palms in California – until their mock enemy had exhausted all options and combat power.

Warrant Officer (Class Two) Nige Quarman, C Coy's Company Sergeant Major, said: “Working independently at reach provided a host of challenges, not only for the deployed teams but for the headquarters element.

“The operations room for a Company Group has become a beast - now more reflecting a unit formation. With disaggregated teams on the ground, the amount of information that is processed from various sources should not be underestimated.”

The commando teams – named Teal 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 – were mobilised after a period of battle preparation, which saw everything not matching the desert palette painted tans and browns, from fuel cans to camouflage nets.

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COMMANDOS READY TO UP THE ANTE IN 2021

Royal Marines will surge ahead with their bold modernisation in 2021 after a year of experiments, trials and their customary front-line successes around the world in the past 12 months.

The commandos continued to deliver on global operations, from the heat of the Gulf to the sub-zero Arctic and tropical Caribbean and Mediterranean, on Royal Navy ships and stationed on land as part of a high-readiness force, ready to deploy wherever most needed.

While continuing the more traditional commitments of the Corps – as experts in combat in extreme climes, as guardians of the UK’s nuclear deterrent and as maritime operations specialists – there has also been a significant ramping up of Future Commando Force work – an audacious restructuring and modernisation of the commando force for the next era of warfare.

The comprehensive transformation will take years to complete but there has been early progress – progress now being felt by commandos on the front line, as new kit and tactics are trialled and developed on exercises.

A new uniform which is lighter, less likely to tear, is faster-drying and is more breathable than typical 50/50 cotton/nylon kit is now being worn, along with the new blue and red commando insignia and a White Ensign signifying the commandos’ integration with the Royal Navy.

That has been coupled with experiments with new kit and tactics, notably in the Arctic and Mediterranean on the Winter Deployment 20 and the autumn’s Littoral Response Group (Experimentation) mission to the Mediterranean.

This saw drones, vehicles and ‘throwbots’ – lobbed over walls, through windows and open doors to give marines an idea of what’s inside – and more tested in a range of battlefield scenarios to scrutinise their usefulness to commandos on the ground when it matters most.

This crucial Future Commando Force work came alongside notable operational successes in the Gulf and in the Caribbean.

Marines of 47 and 42 Commando, plus their Army comrades of 24 Commando, played a key role in Caribbean drugs busts while on deployment with RFA Argus.

In total, £400m of illegal narcotics were seized by the Royal Navy task group in the region, with 47 Commando working closely with the US Coast Guard to board and search suspect vessels, while a maritime sniper from 42 Commando kept close watch from a Wildcat helicopter of 815 Naval Air Squadron.

45 Commando were also in the Caribbean, acting as a security presence around the Turks and Caicos Islands to deter illicit activity on the back of three months in the Arctic as part of the largest deployment to the high north in nearly a decade.

Meanwhile, in the Gulf, boarding teams from 42 Commando completed drugs busts of their own, most notably a double header worth more than £13m while deployed on destroyer HMS Defender.

Teams have also been permanently stationed on HMS Montrose, as the Type 23 frigate patrols the powder keg shipping lanes of the Gulf, ready to react to emerging situations.

At home, 43 Commando have been on duty round the clock – every single day of the year – protecting the UK’s ultimate weapon at Clyde Naval Base in Scotland.

The Fleet Protection Group’s R and P Squadrons headed on intensive exercises to keep them razor sharp for these missions, pushing themselves in a range of skills on training in the UK and in Gibraltar.

In the wake of the explosion in Beirut, a force protection team of Royal Marines from 42 Commando deployed with HMS Enterprise to support the UK’s efforts following the explosion which devastated Lebanon’s capital city.

In 2021, the evolution of the Royal Marines into the Future Commando Force, returning to the original concept of commandos as elite raiders from the sea – but with 21st Century communications, technology, weaponry and tactics – will continue apace.

During their traditional winter deployment to Norway, marines will work on new tactics for operating in the Arctic.

And the experimental Vanguard Strike Company – formed especially to test new equipment and tactics, adapting and adopting them for front-line operations – will deploy for first time.

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14-week training. Only one infantry MOS. The Marine Corps is considering these major changes to its enlisted infantry

Philip Athey

The Marine Corps will launch a pilot program in early 2021 that extends the School of Infantry to 14 weeks, a Marine Corps spokesman confirmed. And it might be consolidating all enlisted infantry military occupational specialties into one.

The pilot program and potential MOS consolidation come as the entire Marine Corps is modernizing as it prepares to face off against a near-peer adversary in a future war.

“We have at least one adversary that we haven’t had in decades,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, said talking about the strengthening Chinese military.

Berger sees the Corps countering the growing Chinese threat by deploying Marines in small dispersed units spread out across the Pacific and South China Sea. Those Marines will act as the “eyes and ears” of the joint force, while being able to sink ships and maybe even hunt submarines.

The dispersed force will require Marines to make high-level decisions at more junior ranks than before.

“We need to get to that higher level because they are going to be more distributed, we are going to rely on them to make higher level decisions,” Berger said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.

To prepare the Marines for dispersed operations, the Corps will implement a pilot program in 2021, extending the School of Infantry, or SOI, from nine weeks to 14 weeks, Capt. Samuel Stephenson, a spokesman for Marine Corps Training and Education Command, told Marine Corps Times on Thursday.

“These proof of concept courses will be revised over the next calendar year based upon Fleet Marine Force feedback to produce Infantry Marines with the requisite skills necessary to succeed in the future Marine Infantry Battalion,” Stephenson said in the email.

The 14-week course will start by covering basic infantry concepts, then, as the course progresses, Marines will be tested on those concepts in increasingly complex contexts and environments, Stephenson said.

The pilot program SOI course will end in a “capstone field exercise which completes the training picture for the Marines and serves as a final evaluation,” Stephenson said.


While the initial program will test a 14-week course, the SOI course that ultimately gets implemented may be even longer or slightly shorter, Stephenson said.

“The length of the course is not a limiting or defining factor for the future of Marine Infantry Training,” Stephenson said. ”The end-state is to produce the high-quality Infantry Marine that the future force needs to be successful.”

In an effort to make soldiers more lethal, the Army tested extending its infantry training from 14-weeks to 22-weeks in 2018. The training includes the eight-weeks of initial Army training, roughly equivalent to Marine Corps boot camp.

In 2019, the Army also extended its armor training to 22 weeks. The changes were made permanent in 2020, Army Times reported.

The changes at Marine Corps SOI may go beyond just the length of the course and what is taught, with the Corps considering consolidating all infantry military occupational specialties, or MOSes, creating a do-it-all infantry Marine.

Currently the Marine Corps trains 0311 riflemen, 0331 machine gunners, 0341 mortarmen, 0351 infantry assault Marines and 0352 antitank missile gunners at SOI.

The extended training time could be used for more time crosstraining Marines on different specialties, making more flexible infantry battalions in the future.

The decision to consolidate these all into one MOS, “is yet to be determined and will be informed throughout the force design implementation process and war gaming of our future force composition,” Stephenson said.

“The future Infantry Marine Course will incorporate additional tasks and skill sets previously untrained in entry level training with a focus on effective, effects-based decision making in all domains.” Stephenson said. “The course will produce a multi-disciplined Infantry Marine, able to survive, fight, and win in dispersed and contested environments.”

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/y ... -infantry/

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Marines Weigh Closing Parris Island and San Diego to Open New Coed Boot Camp

The Marine Corps is considering a plan in which it could close its two existing boot camp locations and funnel all recruits to a new base where men and women would train together.

Marine entry-level training is a long way off from being able to meet a congressional mandate to make its East and West coast training bases both able to support gender-integrated training in the coming years, the Corps' top general said on Thursday.

That is leading the service to study the option of opening a third training base in a new location to which all new recruits would ship, rather than spending cash on construction projects at aging training bases.

"Nothing, the way we're organized right now, lends itself to integrated recruit training," Commandant Gen. David Berger said on Thursday. "If that's our start point -- and it is -- we have to get to a place on both coasts, or at third location or whatever we end up with, that ... there are male and female recruits around."

Both the Marine Corps' recruit training depots have storied pasts -- particularly Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, which was first used by Marines in the 1890s. Hundreds of thousands of Marines have stood on the famous yellow footprints on each base at the start of their careers before earning the coveted eagle, globe and anchor and title of Marine.

But with a new law bearing down on the service to make both locations support coed training -- within five years at Parris Island and eight at San Diego -- the Marine Corps is exploring different options, Maj. Eric Flanagan, Berger's spokesman told Military.com.

"The question becomes, 'Are we better off just using [military construction] dollars to create a new third site, or put that money into our existing sites?'" he said. "No decisions have been made. We're not investing any money anywhere else. It's just an option we're talking about."

The Marine Corps hasn't yet identified a state where the new boot camp location might be located, Flanagan said. In assessing the possible change though, he said they're considering a lot more than just the need for coed squad bays and other facility changes to support gender-integrated boot camp.

Parris Island sits on South Carolina's coast, just north of Hilton Head, leaving it susceptible to hurricanes. And in California, recruits leave the recruit depot, which butts up against San Diego International Airport, to complete some of their needed training at nearby Camp Pendleton.

Related: 4 of the Funniest Boot Camp Stories We've Ever Heard

Having two boot camp sites also creates redundancies, Flanagan said. Historically, all female recruits and men who live east of the Mississippi River train at Parris Island. Male recruits west of the Mississippi ship to San Diego.

"If you have to update a lot anyway, do you save manpower, resources and personnel by just combining the two into one?" Flanagan said.

If the Marine Corps were to move boot camp away from its fabled training bases, Kate Germano, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who led Parris Island's female 4th Recruit Training Battalion, said leaders must explain their reasoning in full. Otherwise, she said she worries male Marines would blame women for the loss of tradition.

"There would be so much animus there, as if there isn't already enough," Germano said.

Women first began training at Parris Island in the 1940s, but it wasn't until last year that the training base saw the first-ever coed company graduate. The Marine Corps continues to fight to keep its platoons segregated by gender, though it has trained several more coed companies.

Germano said she's concerned plans to create an all-new training base would slow boot camp gender-integration efforts.

"The way the Marine Corps has kicked this can down the road consistently, it's a delay tactic in my view," Germano said. She was relieved of command in 2015 for what she says was an effort to push for better, more equitable training for women. Marine officials contended at the time she was relieved because she was a toxic leader.

There can be a years-long lag between a planned military construction project, Germano said, and "shovels in the dirt."

"The big question that I have is, where is this on the Marine Corps' list of priorities, and why isn't it at the top?" she said.

A Marine Corps memo on the service's plans to make boot camp gender-neutral released last month referred to it as such.

"Gender integration at Marine Corps Recruit Training remains a top priority," the plan submitted to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services states. "The outcome the Marine Corps desires for gender integration is for every male recruit to train alongside a female recruit within the same company."

But for a service that has struggled to embrace coed training, Richard Kohn, a history professor who studies the U.S. military at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said a new training site could serve as a fresh start.

"If they build something from the ground up, they'll be able to make it exactly as they want to facilitate integrated training," Kohn added. "And second of all, if they get rid of Parris Island, it might dilute the traditionalist emotions."

Kohn said the move is likely to face pushback from members of Congress interested in keeping the bases -- along with their associated workforces -- in their states.

Flanagan said it's too early to say whether a new boot camp site would mean the Marine Corps would get rid of its two coastal-area bases. Closing military bases can take years, but the real estate in California and South Carolina could prove valuable.

Ultimately, Kohn said, the decision could come down to cost.

"The bean counters usually [decide] these things," he said.

-- Gina Harkins can be reached at gina.harkins@military.com. Follow her on Twitter @ginaaharkins.

Related: Here's the Marine Corps' Plan to End Gender Segregation at Boot Camp

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MILITARES PORTUGUESES TREINAM BATALHÃO ANFÍBIO DAS FORÇAS ARMADAS DA REPÚBLICA CENTRO-AFRICANA

​Uma equipa de militares portugueses dos Pilares de Educação e do Treino Operacional, da Missão de Treino da União Europeia na República Centro-Africana (EUTM-RCA) está a ministrar, desde o dia 22 de fevereiro e até ao dia 17 de março, formação ao Batalhão Anfíbio das Forças Armadas da RCA (FACA).

Este Batalhão tem como tarefas principais participar na defesa do território, através do controlo da fronteira fluvial, bem como apoiar, por via fluvial as unidades que operam no terreno, escoltar entidades e carregamentos de combustível e ainda, assegurar operações de busca e salvamento.

A formação ministrada permite aos militares daquela subunidade adquirir conhecimentos e técnicas de modo a garantir a segurança e a liberdade de movimentos nas áreas fluviais da RCA, assim como ter mais eficiência na execução de missões no âmbito do Boarding, tática de tratamento de feridos em combate, segurança marítima, defesa pessoal, operações ribeirinhas e manutenção de embarcações.

A EUTM RCA, comandada pelo Brigadeiro-General Paulo Neves de Abreu, tem no seu efetivo 55 militares portugueses dos três ramos das Forças Armadas, que desempenham serviço nas mais variadas áreas da Missão (Comando da Missão, Estado-Maior, aconselhamento estratégico, formação e treino operacional).

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Fuzileiros do Exército Italiano:

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Agora eu não entendi nada. Sempre pensei que o batalhão San Marco fosse da marinha italiana.

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Agora eu não entendi nada. Sempre pensei que o batalhão San Marco fosse da marinha italiana.

Estes não são da Brigada San Marco, mas sim do Regimento Lagunari.

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Agora eu não entendi nada. Sempre pensei que o batalhão San Marco fosse da marinha italiana.

Estes não são da Brigada San Marco, mas sim do Regimento Lagunari.

Não conhecia esse regimento. Para mim é uma novidade. Obrigado pelo esclarecimento. Vou precrustar mais um pouco sobre ele.