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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
As I recall, a couple of years ago the Marine Corps had proposed building a major MOUT and antiterrorism joint training center at Eglin, but I don't know what became of that.
Besides building new facilities, with all those planes nearby, it ought not be hard to fly to existing MOUT facilities at Forts Bragg, Benning, Polk and Stewart and Camp Blanding, FL (where I went to summer camp as a kid). The nearest SFAUC facility is 20th Group's at Fort McClellan, which is about 250 miles north of Eglin.
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Eglin itself is a fighter base, not a transport base.
As far as Spec Ops aircraft availability goes, generally, the AF (and ARSOA) makes few if any lift hours available to white SF. Why would they fly to Bragg for 7th Group?
There goes the walk-ins for SWCS courses, and support for SWCS as well. Few strap hanging opportunities for jumps either. Of course, with Pope realigned, who knows what that will do for airborne ops.
Camp Blanding would be a decent MOUT option, but having worked trying to support a SF unit in an area with limited facilities, I would say that there are a ton of reasons not to do it, and few other than Jointness to do so.
BTW, wait till the 4th Brigade tries to move into the 7th SFGA area and finds each company gets one small set of four offices, six 12 man team rooms, a 20 man classroom, and a supply room. No barracks spaces.
It occurs to me that the BRAC Commission likely knew little about tenant units and their requirements other than personnel numbers.
TR