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Budget Constraints Due To Pandemic May Slow Down Marines’ Force Redesign, Commandant Says

Budget Constraints Due To Pandemic May Slow Down Marines’ Force Redesign, Commandant Says
Gen. David H. Berger, who retired as Commandant of the Marine Corps on July 10, 2023, while at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on July 29, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Warrant Officer Bobby J. Yarbrough)

The long-term budget impacts of the pandemic may cause a delay in the Marine Corps’ plans to redesign the force by 2030, the service’s top official said Thursday. Gen. David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant, told attendees during a virtual Defense One discussion that likely budget constraints in the near future won’t stop efforts to shift toward a focus on naval expeditionary warfare, but could slow down the rate of the change. “[The pandemic] could affect the rate at which…

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