Evolving the Relationship Trolling Er

1/13/2014 Navy Marine Corps Team 1

EVOLVING THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOF AND THE ARG/MEU

AGENDA

• Value and Utility of the Navy and Marine Corps Team • Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) • Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

• Global SOF Network • Special Operations Forces Liaison Element (SOFLE) • Vignettes

High return on US investment :

- Enhanced strategic and operational flexibility - Achieves greater synergy in servicing Combatant Commanders objectives by leveraging complementary capabilities, strengths and advantages

1/13/2014 UNCLASSIFIED 2

Forward Deployed ARG/MEU Presence Crisis Response/Partnering/Small Scale Contingencies

Crisis response and limited

contingency operations

UNCLASSIFIED 3

Support to major combat

operations Partner and prevent,

persistent presence

Crisis/Contingency Response

• Deter aggression

• Respond quickly to crisis

• Protect citizens/interests

• Expand influence

– Strengthen alliances

– Conduct Information Operations

Recent Examples: • Afghanistan • Libya • Pakistan • Haiti • Indonesia • Lebanon • Kosovo • Liberia • Philippines • US Gulf Coast

Value of Forward Deployed Amphibious Forces

Flexibility

• Build partnerships

• Respond to crises

• Project influence and power when and where necessary

Advantages

• Sea-based approach limits our footprint ashore • Reassures coalition partners and demonstrates

commitment • Allows rapid crisis response • Enable rapid buildup of follow-on joint forces • Deterrent that prevents and/or limits conflict • Credible means to create and sustain access

“Amphibious flexibility is the greatest strategic asset that a sea- based power possesses.” - B.H. Liddell Hart, 1960, Soldier, Military Historian, Theorist


Sea-based, Scalable, Flexible

Training teams

Deployed Detachments

MEU / ARG

SOF integration

Security exercises

Mil-to-mil contact

Advice to commander and staff

Mil-to-mil technical assistance

Build partner capacity

Integration with country

team Situational insight

MAGTF

Comprehensive range of engagement with minimal footprint ashore

Foreign area specialists

Training and advisor teams

Detachments / Platoons

Teams


Navy-Marine Corps Team Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and MEU

Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD or LHA)

Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)

Dock Landing Ship (LSD)

Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

GCE (Rein Inf Bn)

ACE (Composite Squadron)

LCE (Combat Log Bn)

Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON)

Naval Support Element (NSE)


Supported/Supporting Relationship

MEU Task Organization

MEU

Command Element (CE) (~169 Marines and Sailors)

Ground Combat Element (GCE)

Reinforced Infantry Battalion (~1,200 Marines and Sailors)

Aviation Combat Element (ACE)

Composite Squadron (~417 Marines and Sailors)

Logistics Combat Element (LCE)

Combat Logistics Battalion (~273 Marines and Sailors)

~2,059 Marines and Sailors*

* Based on current MEU Policy Order


ARG Task Organization

PHIBRON

Amphibious

Squadron

Staff

LHD or LHA

LPD

LSD

Helicopter Sea

Combat

Squadron

(HSC)

Detachment

Tactical Air

Control

Squadron

Detachment

Fleet Surgical

Team

Beachmaster

Unit

Detachment

EOD

Detachment*

Assault Craft

Unit (ACU)

Detachment

(LCAC)

ACU

Detachment

(LCU)

• 29 personnel

• Search and

rescue

• Anti-surface

warfare

• Logistics

• 33 personnel

• Planning

• C2

• 29 personnel

• Control tactical air

operations

• 18 personnel

• 1 surgeon/2

physicians

• Surgical and

medical support

• 25 personnel

• Beach traffic control

• Surf zone salvage

• 8 personnel

• Assist ARG in

gaining access

• Render munitions

safe

• 34-54 personnel

• 12-24 personnel

NSE

2 x MH-60S

3-5 x LCAC

1-2 x LCU

2 x LARC-V

UNCLASSIFIED 8 1/13/2014

MEU / ARG Air, Sea, and Ground Mobility ARG Personnel, ~2,059 MEU Personnel ~2,000

LHA/LHD LPD LSD

Landing craft

Heavy lift helos

Fixed wing attack aircraft

Medium lift tiltrotor

Utility & strike helos

AAV’s

Tanks

Trucks

HMMWVs

LAVs

2 x KC-130J

UNCLASSIFIED 9 1/13/2014

Ship-to-Shore Capabilities

Enable the rapid buildup of combat power by moving landing forces ashore and support

and sustain them from the sea

Vertical Lift: Insert and support light forces at

extended ranges and unexpected locations

Surface Lift: Complement vertical lift with greater combat

power, weight, and sustainment

• Fast: 35+ knots

• Can land over 80% of the world’s beaches

• Limited to beach ops

• Medium cargo lift 1 M1A1 tank, or 2 MVTRs, or 4 LAVs

With Personnel Transport Module – 180 personnel

(To be replaced by Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) beginning in 2020)

LCAC

LCU • Large Cargo Lift

2 M1A1 tank, or 4 MVTRs, or 9 LAVs

300 personnel

• 10 knots

• Can operate in ports and harbors

• Limited by beach gradients

• Tracked, armored amphibious assault transports

to and through hostile territory

• 21 combat equipped Marines

• Speed: Water: 7 knots / Land: 45 mph

• 12.7 mm machinegun & 40mm grenade launcher

AAV

(To be replaced by amphibious combat vehicle ~2021)

MV-22B Osprey

• Medium lift assault support

• 24 combat equipped Marines

• 12,500 lbs external load

• Cruise Speed: 262 knots

• Combat Range: 325 NM w/o refuel

• Heavy lift assault support

• 30 combat equipped Marines (can lift

up to 55 passengers)

• 36,000 lbs external load

• Cruise speed: 150 knots

• Combat Range: 500 NM w/o refuel


CH-53E Super Stallion

(To be replaced by CH-53K beginning in 2018)

(To replace CH-46 with full operational capability by 2017)

• Versatile, sea-based capability for the era of uncertainty

• Proven, flexible utility in peace and conflict

• Leverages our command of the seas to build necessary partnership, exert timely influence, and deter conflict

• Forward to respond to crises with a variety of essential capabilities

• Enables strategic conditions for an expeditionary-dependent military

ARG/MEU Highly Relevant Force

Engage Respond Project

Flexibility to respond to global instability and enabling maximum freedom of action with the least risk


Humanitarian Assistance

MEU

• Mobile power generators

• Bulldozers and excavator

• Forklifts

Medical Water General Engineering Transport and Distribution

ARG

• 4-7 LCAC and LCUs

• 2 medium lift helicopters

MEU

• 16 medium and heavy lift

helicopters

• 15 AAVs

• 38 medium lift trucks

ARG/MEU capabilities are self-supporting and have minimal impact on a

fractured infrastructure: • Berthing and feeding of teams aboard ship

• Aircraft basing on ships

• Self-contained landing craft facilities (well-decks)

• Significant communications and C2 facilities

The ARG/MEU team can provide significant assistance in response

to humanitarian and disaster events


ARG

• 7 physicians and 3

dentists

• 5-9 operating rooms

• 7-25 intensive care beds

• 730-800 ward and triage

beds

MEU

• 7 physicians and 2

physician assistants

• 78 corpsmen

• Shock trauma platoon

• 30-bed evacuation ward

• casualty evacuation

ARG

• Produce 332,000 gallons of

potable water per day at sea

MEU

• Produce 28,800 gallons of

potable water per day ashore

Non-combatant Evacuation Operations Globally Protecting US Citizens

Forward deployed;

ready to

assist


GLOBAL SOF NETWORK

USSOCOM- 2020 Vision A globally networked force of SOF, interagency, allies, and partners able to rapidly respond and persistently address regional contingencies and threats to stability.


SOF Liaison Element (SOFLE)

The USSOCOM-MEU/ARG SOF Liaison Element (SOFLE) is provided to deploying MEU/ARGs to improve access, leverage the global SOF network (GSN), enable TSOC coordination, and facilitate interdependent MEU/ARG-SOF Objectives, Actions, and Activities (OAA) in order to better support GCCs’ steady state and crisis response operations.


Seven man team of experienced SOF operators and enablers sourced

from across the SOF Enterprise

Intel Analyst

•CWO2-CWO3 or E7 – E8 •SOF enabler with experience at the tactical and or operational level •Capable of performing all source analysis using SOF intel OPS/TTPs

TSOC LNO

Knowledge of current TSOC OAAs. Relevant regional expertise. Knowledge of TSOC staff to coordinate with all appropriate TSOC directorates.

SOFLE Leader

•O5 LtCol/Commander •SOF leader w/Theater SOF experience •Capable of advising on SOF/MEU/ARG combined operations

Assistant Leader

•CWO3-CWO4 or E8 • SOF leader w/Theater SOF experience •Capable of advising on SOF/MEU/ARG combined operations

Intel Analyst

•E6 – E7 •SOF enabler with experience at the tactical and or operational level •Capable of performing all source analysis using SOF intel OPS/TTPs

Communicator

•E7 – E8 •SOF enabler with experience at the tactical and or operational level •Capable of operating relevant SOF and common service C4I

Communicator

•E6 – E7 •SOF enabler with experience at the tactical and or operational level •Capable of operating relevant SOF and common service C4I

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SOFLE Task Organization


SOFLE Deployed Command and Control

GCC

NAVFOR MARFOR TSOC

USSOCOM

MEU

ARG SOFLE JSOTF

COCOM

OPCON

TACON

COORD

LNO Exchange


MEU/ARG/SOFLE Forward Engagement

MEU / ARG elements aboard LPD team with

theater Crisis Response Element (CRE) to

conduct bilateral VBSS training with HN SOF.

CRE supported by NSW / SWCC provide Boat

Assault Force (BAF) training while MEU Force

Reconnaissance Platoon supported by ACE

provide Helicopter Assault Force training.

Training mission culminates with a HN SOF led

full mission profile (FMP) VBSS

LPD

LHD

LSD

JSOTF

HN Capital Port

Airfield SOFLE

US Embassy

SOF MLE

CRE / NSW / SWCC

MEU / ARG is directed by the GCC and through

the NAVFOR to support JSOTF. MEU / ARG

task organizes training support teams to

support SOF led HN training requirements and

JSOTF logistic support. ARG provides Level III

medical support from the LHD. MEU training

force is supported from the sea , maintaining a

minimal footprint ashore.

Eighteen months prior to the deployment, USSOCOM sponsors MEU / PHIBRON /

SOFLE / TSOC synchronization, identifying opportunities to leverage MEU / ARG

capabilities and capacities in support of GCC theater security cooperation

objectives. The SOFLE and TSOC provide MEU / ARG leadership with options to

employ forces in support of ongoing SOF partnered nation training and FID

missions.

1 2

3

Port

ODA

MSOT

MSOT

ODA

HN requests US support with expanding security

force capacity. GCC tasks TSOC to deploy a

JSOTF in support of US Ambassador . JSOTF

employs Operational Detachment Alphas (ODA)

and Marine Special Operations Teams (MSOT) to

conduct foreign internal defense (FID) with

partnered HN security force. JSOTF requests

MEU / ARG support during expansion phase of

JSOTF mission.

4


MEU/ARG/SOFLE Crisis Response

SOFLE

2 As HN situation deteriorates, GCC designates the MEU

/ ARG as the supported commander. JSOTF continues

to combat advise along external force axis of advance

and deploys ODA and MSOTs to conduct

reconnaissance of airfields and ports to enable follow-

on MEU / ARG operations. Upon US Ambassador's

request JSOTF CRE, MEU Forward Command Element

(FCE) and a tailored MEU security force link up at US

embassy in support of potential NEO.

LPD

LHD

LSD

JSOTF

HN Capital Port

ODA Airfield

US Embassy CRE / MEU FCE

MEU / ARG conducts evacuation of US personnel and

designated third country nationals (TCN) via air and

surface craft. US Ambassador remains at the embassy

with essential staff. JSOTF forces continue to advise HN

security forces and leverage MEU / ARG fires, C2 and

logistic support. MEU / ARG conducts raids from the sea

and deploys ground forces in partnership with JSOTF

and HN security forces to HN capital, airfield and ports

to eliminate external threat and stabilize the situation.

MEU operations are supported from the sea.

Facing internal unrest caused by spillover from conflict in a bordering nation, HN

requests US support to counter internal and external threats. JSOTF shifts to a

combat advisory role. ODAs and MSOTs provide enabling actions (C2, fires

coordination and logistics) in support of HN security forces. MEU / ARG supports

JSOTF with FW / RWCAS, tactical lift and logistics.

3 1

Port

ODA

MSOT

MSOT External Forces

MEU Tactical Lift

MEU FWCAS

Internal unrest

MEU RWCAS

Surface Evacuation

External forces are defeated. MEU

/ ARG maintains overwatch and

provides a QRF from the sea as HN

security forces reestablish security

across the nation. JSOTF forces

remain partnered HN security

forces and conduct an assessment

of future HN FID requirements.

Once HN security situation is

stabilized, the GCC designates the

JSOTF as the supported

commander and the MEU / ARG

prepares to depart the AO.

4 Air Evacuation

MEU Raid

MEU Raid


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