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09-25-2009, 10:19 AM
Loose Cannon
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I'm having a hard time making out the differences between the use; purpose; organization of the various Recon Marines. Then with MARSOC they seem to be going for a Special Forces ODA team, particularly since they are stressing languages now. Plus there is the Marine Special Operations Advisory Group, which sounds a lot like "winning the hearts and minds" of the Green Berets. I can see maybe the Mission that the Green Berets have been doing is one that has a positive impact, but there are only so many. So why not have the Marines pitch in.
I'm under the impression that they may try to get rid of the Force Recon as they stood before. They now make up an additional Platoon in the MEF's recon Battalion.
The main difference between Force Recon units and MSPF seems to be that the Force Recon units are meant to be a Division resource. The MSPF is more a resource for a deployed MEU. I would suppose the Force Recon would be more able to be Airborne dropped in and the MSPF would be more of a water-borne insertion.
But reading that the MSPF is deployed when Force Recon is not available seems a little fuzzy mathy for me. I mean why not use the Force Recon guys? Is a MSPF only a thrown together unit?
I'm wondering if the CORPS said yeah take all the older Marines to MARSOC we got new one coming and we'll just bump up the capabilities of our Recon Battalions so they are essentially all Force Recon. Because Force Recon was only like 5 companies to begin with I think. So if half went to MARSOC, maybe they get a bunch of money and put it into their training? I mean all recon marines get Airborne training and CQB trained. And like you said they have one battalion get the serious CQB training and another get the Combat diver training.
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