[miliantnutcase]

Yeah special operators were being overly taxed with the new 21st century style of fighting in Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran and they needed more qualified candidates and resources to call upon. The Marines for years have trained guys good enough to be a SEAL or a G.B. It only made sense they setup their own and train with SOCOM.

[PeteB570]

Select SEALs and Marines have attended portions of the Special Forces Schools for over 35 years.

All the SOF troops, to include the Marines in MARSOC are good at what they do. Some areas overlap but there is a difference in focus. To understand that focus is to use it correctly. Something higher commands are still wrestling with.

[Recon Dad]

I met with one of my son’s instructors at BRC in Coronado a few years back and he happened to be a SEAL. He told me they put the Marines through hell. They had about a 60% drop rate, but that didn’t include all the people lost during indoc and selection and these are infantry Marines with at least one combat tour. The SEALs get high attrition rate a lot because they take most of their recruits right out of the fleet. They get the best, but they don’t have the pool the Marines have to draw from.