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Home Front: WoT
MARINES: Shrinking The USMC
2010-08-16
Carter-like military coming?
The U.S. Marine Corps is again threatened, this time with a sharp reduction in its size. In response, marine commanders say they would prefer to be a smaller force, one that concentrates on its main mission; amphibious operations. The marines were unhappy with the way they have been used as an army auxiliary over the past decade. The marines consider themselves specialists, while the army are generalists (and, for example, carried out more amphibious operations than the marines did during World War II).
A different take on reduction in size of the Marine Corp.
We just got done expanding the Core to meet the needs of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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