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Video: Huge Changes to USMC Light Armored Recon (FD2030) (Patreon)

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2025-07-01 02:29:36

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2026-06

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New video that covers the US Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) formations. Specifically:

Current doctrinal role and missions
Organization and equipment from the team to battalion-level, including company-level task organization options and non-T/O organizational changes made in some battalions due to space constraints on MEUs
The experimentation LAR Bns are currently doing, as they wish to restructure them into Mobile Reconnaissance Battalions to align with maritime reconnaissance in the Indo-Pacific

Apologies for taking so long, the research portion took particularly long because I was going back and forth with a lot of Marines over email/DMs

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Huge Changes to USMC Light Armored Recon (FD2030)

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