đź”´Royal Marines have forced US troops to surrender just days into a training exercise after eliminating almost the entire unit.
The British commandos “dominated” US forces during a training exercise in California, using a new battle structure
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— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
Victorious! 🏆@RoyalMarines triumph in part of multinational team on Exercise Green Dagger 21. The 5-day Multi-domain war-fighting exercise concluded with an epic close quarters finale in Mojave Desert.
🇬🇧🇨🇦🇳🇱🇦🇪🇺🇸#StrongerTogether @USMC pic.twitter.com/MW0xzw0TBt— 40 Commando Royal Marines (@40commando) October 30, 2021
American forces beat the British in two world wars!
Now we’re losing to them!
RT:
UK’s Royal Marines have reportedly handed a decisive defeat to their US counterparts during exercises in California’s Mojave Desert, with the Americans losing so badly they had asked for a time-out halfway into the mock battle.
A commando of Royal Marines deployed to the US Marine Corps facility in Twentynine Palms last month for Green Dagger 2021 exercises, among other things in order to test a new force structure. After training with the Dutch, Emirati and Canadian colleagues, they were pitted against the USMC in a five-day fighting exercise.
The 40 Commando proclaimed on Saturday they were “victorious,” offering no further details.
According to the Telegraph, however, the Royal Marines “dominated” their USMC counterparts. US forces were so badly mauled after the first two days, they reportedly asked for a “reset.” At one point, the 40 Commando’s “kill board” showed almost every US asset as either destroyed or rendered inoperable.
The exercise area stretched over 3,500 square kilometers (1,350 square miles) of desert and mountains, including urban settings populated by actors playing civilians.The British force began in control of 20% of the area, and ended up commanding 65% at the end of the battle. They reportedly succeeded by targeting the US headquarters and valuable equipment, “paralyzing” the Americans’ counter-attacks. British artillery and fighter jets helped the commandos advance, and a last-minute USMC counter-attack was repelled.
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Earlier this year, the US Air Force revealed it had “won” a simulated battle against China over Taiwan in 2020, for the first time in three years. However, as critics pointed out, the USAF only managed to do so after giving itself new technologies and capabilities that don’t yet exist – even on the drawing board.
Welp.
The reason for this seems to be that the US military is much gayer and browner than the British military.
If we can’t even beat the very gay British, how are we going to beat the friggin’ Chinese???
Mystery!
🇺🇸Exercise Green Dagger took place at the US Marine Corps’ Twentynine Palms base in the Mojave Desert in southern California.
The US forces asked for a “reset” half way into the five-day war fighting exercise, having suffered significant simulated casualties pic.twitter.com/S7rH3I4TLG
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
➡️At one point, the commandos’ “kill board”, an intelligence assessment of the level of damage inflicted upon enemy equipment and units, had a tick against almost every American assethttps://t.co/d0rexz2tlm pic.twitter.com/8aD6gvoQ5k
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
đź“ŚExercise Green Dagger is a multi-national, multi-domain war fighting exercise, played out across one of the biggest military training areas in the world.
It is designed to test the United States Marine Corps in preparation for operational readiness pic.twitter.com/AgEEvLv6v8
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
🏜️Based around three urban areas set within a vast expanse of over 3500 Km2 of mountainous and desert terrain, the exercise facilitated complex operational scenarioshttps://t.co/d0rexz2tlm pic.twitter.com/RgAdmpHaKJ
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
British troops infiltrated the enemy’s rear area causing havoc by striking high value targets and command and control nodes, which paralysed any counterattack.
✖️Throughout the exercise, the commando artillery unit destroyed multiple enemy vehicle and artillery positions pic.twitter.com/nd5WqkF2sZ
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
🇬🇧British troops used the exercise to trial the new Littoral Response Group (LRG) structure, around which the future commando force will be built.
It aims to produce highly flexible and mobile commando forces and will operate alongside allies and partners pic.twitter.com/RAu2EDteoZ
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
Britain will eventually have two LRGs; one based in the UK and one located in and around the Omani port of Duqm.
🇴🇲The LRG based in Oman will focus on British military activity in the Indo-Pacific region pic.twitter.com/fjyjq2Gzmx
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
🌍Each LRG will be able to work with the carrier strike group to produce an expeditionary strike force capable of operating anywhere in the world for extended periods of timehttps://t.co/d0rexz2tlm pic.twitter.com/n91O36rMDp
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
🗣️Lieutenant Colonel Andy Dow said: “Throughout this deployment our focus has been on integrating game-changing capabilities from across the commando force to deliver disproportionate effect in the face of a free-thinking peer adversary”
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— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) November 2, 2021
Precisely this. This is lost on most of the US too. The Marine Corps is a 180k man light infantry force but still infantry (predominantly). The Royal Marines are essentially 7k light special forces dudes. Pound for pound considerably better trained more on par with USMC Recon.
— Guns, Ganders, and Goats (@MENA_Conflict) November 2, 2021