The US Marine Corps (USMC) has been increasingly embracing the use of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), deepening implementation to embed drones as a routine combat system rather than a niche technology across the Fleet Marine Force. “Our goal is to make drones just like a rifle, a mortar, a machine gun”, Col H Parker Consaul, director of Marine Corps Robotics Integration Group (MCRIG), claimed in a recent press conference. “It is just another weapon system, another capability that our units have to employ.” In order to expand UAS integration into combined-arms operations, the branch has been working on multiple lines of