News Story: U.S. Marine Corps, Army to Restart ‘Forcible Entry’ Drills

By GINA CAVALLARO

As the U.S. looks anew at its interests in the Pacific, the Army and Marine Corps will soon resume joint training aimed at enhancing their forcible-entry capabilities, a top general said March 14.

The two services are planning a series of exercises likely to take place in North Carolina, where tens of thousands of soldiers and Marines are based at Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, which are located just 90 miles apart. With the future security environment uncertain, and an end in sight to combat operations in Afghanistan, the services are discussing ways to leverage complimentary capabilities, said Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, the Corps’ deputy commandant for combat development and integration who serves also as commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va.

“As we look at new strategies, as we look at potential areas of operations in the Pacific, I think it’s very natural that the Marines and the Army discuss it … should we have to go somewhere where people don’t want us to go,” Mills said.

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