Sea Basing Ensuring Joint Force Access from the Sea (2005) / Chapter Skim
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3 New Ship Classes for Sea Basing
3 New Ship Classes for Sea Basing
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, the advanced base, the sea base, and the objective or shore. A simplified illustration of the Sea Basing concept is shown in Figure 3.1.
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may be required for transferring cargo from CONUS or the advanced base to the ships of the sea base/ Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future)
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armed forces. The Maritime Prepositioning Force, comprising 16 of these ships, carries equipment and supplies for the Marine Corps; the 10 ships carrying Army equipment are called the Combat Prepositioning Force; the remaining 10 ships carry equipment and supplies for the Air Force, the Navy, and the Defense Logistics Agency.
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This decision will have broad implications for the total costs of concept implementation. Additional considerations include legal issues surrounding questions of civilian or military manning and the question of whether or not there will be common standards across the other vessels being planned to support the Army and Air Force components of Sea Basing.
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-- are treated as totally independent programs with separate missions and built to independent standards. Under a joint Sea Basing concept, these programs need to be joint under common joint Sea Basing standards from their conception on so as to be not only interoperable, but also optimized to perform in a complementary manner in the future joint sea base operating environment.
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budget above current levels to achieve a more capable fleet, future investment in traditional amphibious ships is likely to be impacted by an increased investment in achieving a new joint Sea Basing capability. Connectors After the decisions are made regarding the future ESG composition and the capabilities required of the MPF(F)
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Surface Connector Node Map Figure 3.2 maps out the Marine Corps vision for the Sea Basing connector classes that need to be investigated in order to take full advantage of the Sea Basing concept. The figure indicates the main nodes of the path from CONUS, advanced base, Maritime Prepositioning Squadron (Future)
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For the MPSRON(F) , this would include the vicinity of the advanced base (where short-range connectors such as the landing craft, utility, or the British partial air cushion supported catamaran (PASCAT)
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If this air capability is needed, the Air Force must be part of the development team because of its experience in acquiring and fielding aircraft of this size and capability. Recommendation: Future developments and analyses of Sea Basing ships and connectors should be conducted under the leadership of a flag-level joint analysis team, which may eventually become a joint program office.
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The Department of the Navy should pursue private industry proposals for the acquisition of larger commercial vessels for such testbeds. The Department of the Navy could use an existing large ship -- a large, medium-speed roll on/roll off or an existing Maritime Prepositioning Force-type reserve ship in a reduced operating status, such as an SL-7/T-AKR Fast Sealift Ship -- as a test platform to test advanced engineering development models aimed at the effective sea transfer of cargo in Sea State 3 or 4.
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