MARINE SPECOPS goes beyond FORCERECON
Special Ops + Marines = pwnage.
Glad to see MARSOC has become reality. About time IMO.
Great idea, past due.
Why the hell do The Marines need a "Special Operations" outfit?
It's been said a thousand times by those a thousand times smarter then me, The United States Marine Corps is a Special Operations outfit by it's very nature.
The next thing you know someone is going to want berets.
Please God NO BERETS!!!!!!
I'm having trouble keeping up with all the changes. Lejuene used to be Force Troops, FMFLant and 2nd MarDiv.
Anything, anywhere, that needed killing, had less than 2 weeks to live. (Depending on our holliday schedule)
Things were so simple 35 years ago. :-(
Semper Fi
bump.
If everybodys special no one really is......
Spec Op's titles are out of control.....just a move for a slice of that DOD money pie IMO.
God Bless the Mk 1 Mod O door kickers getting trigger time !
Why do I have this weird feeling they are just going to take the marines recon units, and the marine sniper units and just re-package and underfund them?
MARSOC is going to be to the Naval Special Warfare Community
(SEALs and SBSs) what the Rangers are to the ARSOF community. When USSOC has a mission that is too large for a SEAL platoon, they'll use a MARSOC element.
Additionally, Marines bring Marine/Naval-peculiar abilities which USSOC can use more of.
Marines have been assigned to SOF commands forever. This is an opportunity to further the USMC contributions to SOF and put the operators and staff on more than an ad hoc basis.
Besides, I've heard for years how FR is a Marine step child. USSOC offers direct access to a myriad of training and equipment FR will love.
I understand that operators are also being taken from FAST and MSPF.
should be an interesting evolution.