Close Support Essay

Close support:

Although it seems reasonable at first the whole principle of close support falls apart once it begins to be challenged. First of all, close support is more or less a subtle way of saying that all marines/ODST are a war criminal in the making and that they can’t be trusted on the field without extensive legal oversight, in reality this sort of attitude from a military towards their own soldiers would be completely devastating to morale and it is unlikely that the chiefs of staff of other branches would ever allow the military police to criminalise their own men. Secondly, in the event that a marine or ODST did commit a war crime on the field the logic that they should be arrested on the spot is inherently broken. First of all trying to arrest a marine or ODST on the field where the deployed force could be attacked at any moment is massively impractical, secondly trying to arrest a full armed individual when they know that submitting peacefully means life imprisonment or execution is putting the officer and the marines with him in an extreme amount of unneeded danger. It is for these reasons that the principle of close support as a reason for MP’s to deploy is nonsensical and as such there is no real reason for the MPs to deploy alongside combat units anymore.

MP attitude and

Most find that the MPs develop an uncooperative attitude towards them and seem to think that they’re either not under the jurisdiction of the ODST or Marine NCOs full stop or that they have the power to command Marine or ODST NCOs in the field, this was shown on the 04/06 when captain Faye threatened to have corporal Winters shot for disobeying one of her orders despite official documents saying that “MP are expected to operate to the same standards of a standard soldier but will hold no in-field command of parallel units despite