Shaffer
01-27-03, 08:27 AM
Marines finally are admitting they’re special.
Corps officials say they have been preparing to form an experimental unit for early next year that will be the Marines’ first direct contribution to the U.S. Special Operations Command.
The move trumps the service’s long-held ethos that Marines are not special warriors but conventional forces equipped and trained to fight a range of missions.
Labeled the Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment, the unit will make its debut in March 2004 and will be headquarted in Coronado, Calif. The command is to go to a lieutenant colonel.
The unit will feature 86 Marines and sailors, said Lt. Col. Giles Kyser, head of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force special operations section at Headquarters, Marine Corps. The section is housed within the headquarters’ plans, policy and operations branch.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=12137&archive=true
Corps officials say they have been preparing to form an experimental unit for early next year that will be the Marines’ first direct contribution to the U.S. Special Operations Command.
The move trumps the service’s long-held ethos that Marines are not special warriors but conventional forces equipped and trained to fight a range of missions.
Labeled the Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment, the unit will make its debut in March 2004 and will be headquarted in Coronado, Calif. The command is to go to a lieutenant colonel.
The unit will feature 86 Marines and sailors, said Lt. Col. Giles Kyser, head of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force special operations section at Headquarters, Marine Corps. The section is housed within the headquarters’ plans, policy and operations branch.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=12137&archive=true