The Marine Corps will implement a new squad formation structure in order to meet the demands of future warfighting. The Marine Corps is setting in motion plans to shrink the size of the ...

ARLINGTON – This year, two Army IBCTs and a not-yet-disclosed Marine unit will be testing four variants of a load-bearing robot vehicle within the dismounted formation for the next year.

US Marine Corps (USMC) officials have described future efforts to optimise the combat effectiveness of the base 'Squad' formation, reflecting on lessons learned more than a decade operating in ...

The Marine Corps will implement a new squad formation structure in order to meet the demands of future warfighting. The transition to these advanced squad formations will occur in FY 2020.

When are 12 Marines more lethal than 13? That math is the equation informing the recently reconfigured Marine Rifle Squad. Said to arrive in FY 2020, the new formation will be smaller, shrinking ...

The Marine Corps, on the other hand, has typically used three fire teams made up of four Marines each, with one squad leader, for a total of 13 Marines per squad.

During this year, 8,000 units of this weapon will be delivered under the largest modernisation process in decades for the USMC. This large-scale upgrade project is related to the Force Design 2030 ...