CEO Notes 4-2025

CEO Notes

April 2025
Our 152nd Annual Meeting will take place on Wednesday, 14 May, at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center.
Soldiers conduct M119 Howitzer live-fire certification. Adding M119 cannons to Marine Corps missile batteries would provide stand-in forces traditional fire support to complement the missiles’ over-the-horizon threat.

Create a Hybrid Cannon-Missile Battery

By Captain Jonathan Dennler, U.S. Marine Corps
April 2025
As the Marine Corps shifts its force structure toward the 2030 end state, it's making room for more over-the-horizon fires assets in the form of medium-range and long-range missile batteries.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) refuels with the fleet oiler USNS John Lenthal (AO-189) in the North Atlantic during exercise Nautical Twilight in August 2023.

Underway in the North Atlantic

By Captain John C. Nygaard, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 2025
The author returns to sea as a contracted ship rider—many years after he held command at sea and retired from the Navy.
A Coast Guard auxiliarist completes a boarding at sea in the Indo-Pacific. Coast Guard auxiliarists are having a significant effect on manpower, filling critical billets and providing much-needed work-life balance to members.

Retain To Rebuild

By Lieutenant (junior grade) Victoria Folz, U.S. Coast Guard
April 2025
Manpower shortages are the most immediate threat to the Coast Guard’s mission success.
Aerial view of the USS Constellation (CVA-64) surrounded by harbor tugs as it passes beneath the Manhattan Bridge in January 1962. Brooklyn Bridge is visible in the background.

From Our Archive

April 2025
Aerial view of the USS Constellation (CVA-64) surrounded by harbor tugs as it passes beneath the Manhattan Bridge in January 1962. Brooklyn Bridge is visible in the background.
Shotgun

Train at Scale to Defeat Drones With Shotguns

By Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Warren, U.S. Marine Corps
April 2025
A recent report from Task and Purpose’s YouTube channel discussed the role of shotguns in the Ukraine-Russia War. It discussed shotguns as a potential long-term solution to target small unmanned ...

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