RFL Company

Intro: In order to complete the mission statement which states “to locate, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver or repel the enemy’s assault by fire and close combat in order to destroy him or his will to resist” our company as a whole should be manned and equipped in accordance with the Marine Corps requirements. The following correspondence identifies the equipment shortfalls that RFL CO A 1/6 2D MARDIV is suffering. Additionally, the correspondence identifies 1st Platoon manpower shortfalls as well.
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Currently in RFL CO A 1/6 2D MARDIV, we maintain only 20% of our total 0311 Corporals (Cpl). Furthermore, we maintain a minimal 25% of our total 0311 Lance Corporal (LCpl) requirement. Additionally, we only maintain 21% of our 0311 Privates (Pvt) requirement. These three shortfalls are important since the Cpl’s are “Fireteam Leaders/Grenades”, LCpls are Squad Automatic Rifleman/Assistant Automatic Rifleman and the Pvts are Riflemen. If one was to break the above percentages into specific platoon they would find that 1st Platoon reports a more realistic number of 66% (6
Furthermore, our company is short in weaponry as well. For instance E08927M (Grenade Laucher-M203A2), E09897M (Machine Gun, 7.62 MI-M240B), E14422M (Riffle, 5.56 MILLIMET- M16A4) and E17107G (Sight, Bore, Optical-TA31RCO-A4) are substantially deficient. The E08927M has been funded for 27 and we currently only have 15 on hand. Therefore, we only maintain 56% of the requirement that Headquarters Marine Corps has stated that we should have this year. E09897M which a reportable item according to the most recent Marine Corps Bulletin 3000 is displaying an on hand percentage of 75% (6 on hand and 8 funded). As of right know we only own 75 (E14422M) out of the 97 that were funded for our utilization so that we can have a chance of being successful. Finally, we only have 70 of the 97 funded