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Colonel Harold Van Opdorp Marine Corps Senator Liaison Office

Colonel Harold Van Opdorp Marine Corps Senator Liaison Office. National Marine Corps Council OLA Update. Today’s Environment The Marine Corps Story What Success Looks Like. Agenda. Operating Environment (OE). The Summer Budget Deal and the DoD $350 Billion $464 Billion

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Colonel Harold Van Opdorp Marine Corps Senator Liaison Office

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  1. Colonel Harold Van Opdorp Marine Corps Senator Liaison Office National Marine Corps Council OLA Update

  2. Today’s Environment • The Marine Corps Story • What Success Looks Like Agenda

  3. Operating Environment (OE)

  4. The Summer Budget Deal and the DoD • $350 Billion • $464 Billion • $489 Billion • Sequestration • $650 Billion • $XXX Billion • ?????? • Fear of the Unknown… • 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 • So What? Today’s Environment

  5. Support from Congress – Congress loves Marines and the Marine Corps! We have to get Congress to understand that the Nation needs the Marine Corps. The Answer

  6. What are we doing? • The Marine Air Ground Task Force • America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness • “ Operating as a team, amphibious forces provide operational reach and agility, they “buy time” and decision space for our national leaders in time of crisis.” General Amos, 35th CMC to SECDEF • 15th MEU • 26th MEU • Haiti • Japanese Disaster Relief • 7.8% • So What? The Marine Corps Story

  7. Support for Marine Corps Priorities on the Hill. • Manpower • Amphibious Shipping • F-35B • Amphibious Combat Vehicle/Ground Tactical Vehicles • MV-22 • Pacific Force Laydown What Does Success Look Like?

  8. HQMC SENATE HOUSE OPERATING FORCES OLA is the conduit between the Hill and the Corps… We speak with many voices… but there is always one theme. Questions

  9. Back-ups

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