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Originally Posted by ArmySGT.
I would question the utility of using U.S Navy personnel as replacements for U.S. Marine Infantry.
Better to call up, draft, or shanghai green troops give them 11 weeks of Marine Basic and ship them over. All those Naval Ratings are not going to be easily replaceable with all the U.S. Naval bases nuked.
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I agree that your alternative is preferable, but would such trans-oceanic shipments of replacement troops continue past '98 or so in quantities that would keep up with combat attrition? v1.0 indicates that a few such shipments occured as late as early '99 and I suppose some of those replacements could have been Marines.
With the Army and Marine Corps baying for combat replacements, could the Navy, now sans most of its surface fleet and aerial assets, make a strong enough case to hold on to its beached personnel to convice the JCS (or CivGov alternative) to keep their hands off its people?