I have picked up vibes that the Army would like to have the Marines removed from Afghanistan because they are “too aggressive”. I remember an Army CG kicked a USMC Company or maybe it was a whole Battalion out of that AO for a similiar reason.
Ping!
I wish the Army would start acting like the Marines in landlocked, mountainous Afghanistan so the Marines could go back to being, you know, near water, like the name 'Marines' implies.
It was a company from Marine Special Operations (MARSOC), under the command of SOCCOM. They whacked everyone (360 degrees) after an ambush was initiated against them.
The explaination was that given the terrain and the location of everyone, there was no way that the nationals were not complicit: lessons learned from Iraq.
But they were sent out of country nonetheless.
2/9, Hell in a Helmet
Semper Fi.