Washington Pulse 

Sea Duty for Combat Hardened Marines 

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Illustration by Brian TaylorMarine officers who joined the Corps during the past five years are unlikely to have set foot aboard a ship. That bothers the commandant, Gen. James Conway. “They’ve been to Iraq two or three times in most instances but, in some cases, now are leaving us never having stepped aboard a ship,” he lamented.

To remedy the situation, the Corps is sending young officers to Basic School Landing Exercise, where they go aboard a ship or two, spend two or three days at sea, then return to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where they are taught how to conduct an amphibious landing. But Conway acknowledged that until Marines are out of Iraq, it will be unrealistic for any unit to spend much time at sea.

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