Marine Corps Prepares For Budget Cuts and Uncertain Future

摘要

For a sneak peek into the Marine Corps' future needs, one can look at the recent past. As 4,000 marines in January were amassing for a large-scale attack on rnMarja, Afghanistan, another 4,000 marines were sailing to Haiti to assist in relief operations in the earthquake-devastated nation. Thousands more were carrying out other missions around the globe.rnMarine officials say that the force in the coming decades will be just as busy, but it will have to do the job with fewer resources.rn"We have an expression in the Corps: 'We sometimes have to do more with less,' and I honestly think that's what we face in the not-so-distant future," said Gen. James T. Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps.