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Great thread. Like most SF soldiers, I have worked with USMC folks quite a bit in my time (Force Recon, MEU-SOC) and I have nothing but the highest regard for them.
But my question is this: What "value-added" does the USMC Det 1 bring to SOCOM? Do they fill some void in capability? This organization looks and smells like another SEAL team. If so, great---there's plenty of work for everyone. But if this is just a ploy by the Marines to grab a share of MPF-11 funds (considering that they refused to become part of SOCOM after the Cohen-Nunn Amendement in 1986), then I think the SOCOM leadership would be correct in cutting them loose.
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"I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt...and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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