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Berger Says Marine Corps Must Modernize Logistics Faster

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

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Berger Says Marine Corps Must Modernize Logistics Faster

Gen. David Berger, the commandant of the Marines Corps. (Photo: DoD)

The Commandant of the Marine Corps on Tuesday said the service needs to modernize its logistics capabilities at a much faster pace to keep up with its posture and threats, which ultimately could mean using unmanned vessels and artificial intelligence to move supplies around. Logistics is the service’s pacing function “and we are far behind in terms of modernizing, understanding supply chains, going into the unmanned space like we ought to be. We’re way too far behind,” Gen. David Berger…

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