It's hard enough to get started on Monday, so I apologize if this YouTube video and the awful soundtrack scrambles your intellect.
But I'm showing it because the world needs to know that 1) Yes, there are people in the US Marine Corps who think this is a brilliant idea, and 2) they are using your tax money to create such awful promotional videos!!!!
Yeah but Steve you have forgotten to mention that the launch vehicles look like Scaled Composites' White Knight Two's on steroids - what is Virgin Galactic not telling us...
This is classic, i hate to know this but the muscic for the first half of the video is from Transformers the Movie. Wow how sad am i?!?
Has the USMC gotten the legislative power to get Congress to change the Laws of Physics? Also, did the "lander" use a cloaking device to get on deck unseen? Sigh...
Cool concept, just don't think about it too hard, or you'll realize just how stupid it is given the current environment and technology.
I was particularly amused by the idea of carrying 60-ton tanks on long-range suborbital trajectories.
And yes, the music was indeed familiar.