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3 Force Deployment
3 Force Deployment
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, providing almost immediate crisis response capability. Second, equipment is prepositioned aboard ships of the maritime prepositioning squadrons, which can be moved quickly from their overseas stations to the theater of employment.
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Future military operations may not be afforded the luxury of convenient airfields and ports or benign environments. MPF 2010+ is a concept for exploiting the rapid deployment capabilities of maritime prepositioning without depending on airfields, ports, or benign conditions in the immediate area of intended force employment.
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The first report, MPF 2010 and Beyond: Translating a Concept into Ship Requirements,2 outlines five conceptual ship alternatives for meeting future prepositioning requirements and sizes the lift requirements to be met by each alternative. The alternatives span a wide range of capability, reflecting alternative interpretations as to how the MPF 2010+ concept might be implemented from a strategic sealift ship, similar to the large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships now being procured, that has little aviation capability and little berthing or work space, to a mobile offshore base -- a large, modular structure that could be assembled at sea to provide a C-17-capable air base, facilities for docking and unloading cargo ships, and ample space for storing supplies, maintaining equipment, berthing personnel, and providing medical and other services.
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on board, embarking the personnel and fly-in equipment at an intermediate staging base, proceeding to the area of operations, and then reinforcing an amphibious task force that already has landed its embarked ground-combat element. The reinforcing operation consists of two task forces, launched and sustained from the MPF ships: one task force, composed of two infantry battalions and an artillery battery, which is moved by air to an objective 60 miles inland (85 miles from the ships)
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RECOMMENDATION: The Navy and Marine Corps should reassess the composition of prepositioned equipment sets as they consider future naval maritime prepositioning needs. MPF 2010+ SHIP ALTERNATIVES One of the most-difficult-to-achieve new functions of the MPF 2010+ concept is the at-sea arrival and assembly of the force.
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Of the conventional ship configurations, the most capable ship for the MPF 2010+ mission in the CNA's study has a large flight deck capable of handling fixed-wing aircraft, ample billeting space, state-of-the-art material- and container-handling capability, spaces for maintenance activities, a well deck for landing 5Previous Naval Studies Board reports also have advocated a cautious approach by the Navy and Marine Corps to the development of a mobile offshore base (see Naval Studies Board, National Research Council.
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The committee believes that the idea is worth exploring before deciding MPF ship requirements and design. RECOMMENDATION: Before deciding future maritime prepositioning ship requirements, the Navy and Marine Corps should explore the feasibility of using rapidly deployed amphibious warfare ships to facilitate landing maritime prepositioning forces.
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HIGH-SPEED LANDING CRAFT One of the limitations revealed by the CNA analysis is the inability of the landing craft that likely would be available in an MPF operation to land the force in a reasonable time. A recent logistics war game conducted by Marine Corps Combat Developments Command had the same finding.
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. The Naval Studies Board has previously suggested a need for a high-speed landing craft (a sea sled)
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