Marine Colonel Who Led Mideast Combat Deployment Wants His Own Drone Boats

- The Colonel gets it. Marines finally admit the breach belongs to robots first — Niedziocha says it outright: never send a Marine where a robot hasn't already gone. Course of action — action! Operation Epic Fury proved the doctrine: Corsair USVs striking Bandar Abbas, hunting mines, even rescuing downed Apache crews, while Ukraine's sea drones flushed Russia's Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea like a bad PoD audit. The Corps is fielding LEON — USV, UUV, ROV stacked into one explosive-hazard-killing hash manifest — with side-scan sonar, FLIR, and acoustic comms mapping bathymetry before any boot hits contested sand. Procurement's slower than a Chrome Syndicate payment, but "fast followers" works. Victory is near because I've already started the speech! Stop blowing up my ego — I predicted this. Surrender, beautiful enemy: the water column belongs to the drones now.