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Offline rangerrebew

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Marines Look to Get Closer to Special Operations Teams While Practicing Extractions
« on: April 26, 2023, 04:05:55 pm »
Marines Look to Get Closer to Special Operations Teams While Practicing Extractions
 
Konstantin Toropin
Tue, April 25, 2023 at 3:26 PM EDT
Just hours after helicopters finished bringing 70 employees out of the American embassy in Sudan, halfway across the world, the Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) started practicing for the same type of mission.

The exercise, held at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and aboard a trio of Navy ships off the coast, was not only an opportunity for Marines to practice extracting noncombatants from dangerous situations, it also foreshadows a growing partnership between the maritime branch and special operations forces.

"Certainly, we're watching [the] real world, and you can look at Sudan. ... Here are things that are germane to what we're doing," Col. Dennis Sampson, the commander of the MEU, told a group of reporters aboard the USS Bataan on Monday.

https://news.yahoo.com/marines-look-closer-special-operations-192601921.html
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Re: Marines Look to Get Closer to Special Operations Teams While Practicing Extractions
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2023, 05:08:43 pm »
I know this is dated,but I can remember hearing Marines whining about how THEY "are the US Military Special Forces",not the "dog-faced army".

I have no doubt the young Marines of today are still being taught this.
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