Marines send new special-operations troops to Afghanistan after expulsion-
Sep 6, 2007 3:00 AM
The deployment marks a second chance for the 18-month-old command at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to show that its newly minted special-operations forces can conduct counter-insurgency missions on a par with the Army’s storied Green Berets.
Asked if the Marines changed training after the expulsion, the special-ops command said, “Everyone learns from past experience. We have adjusted some of our training, tactics, techniques and procedures.”
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service last month submitted a report on the expelled company to lawyers for Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, who commands Marines assigned to U.S. Central Command. Mattis will decide in the coming weeks whether to charge any of the company’s 30 Marines. The company commander was relieved of his command.
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During a Pentagon news conference, a U.S. Army colonel apologized for the deaths, triggering a rebuke from Gen. James Conway, the Marine commandant.
“I will just assume that no one at this point, in any chain of command, apologize or talk about terrible, terrible mistakes or those types of wrongdoings,” Conway said. “I think it’s just premature.”
Last I know, those Marines aren’t home yet, either.
Well! It is refreshing to see Gen. Conway standing up.