Marine Special Ops gets intelligence unit

[Teufel]

Just because some Marine who might have reenlisted into the Army and somehow ended up in CAG doesn't count as the Marine Corps contribution to JSOC.

I'm confused on what you are trying to say Teufel.

The Army, Air Force, and Navy all have whole units who are part of JSOC, all I am trying to say is what is to keep the USMC from creating a Tier 1 CT unit as well? I don't think that sounds too unreasonable.

I sent you a PM. I am not going to get too much into it on an online forum but just suffice it to say that JSOC is a joint organization that has representation from all the services.

 

[SCCO_Marine]

Just because some Marine who might have reenlisted into the Army and somehow ended up in CAG doesn't count as the Marine Corps contribution to JSOC.

One of the founding members of SEAL 6 was a Marine SSgt. fr/ Force.

Both services SMUs have recruited Marines in the past.

A Naval SMU's Air Officer is always a Marine O-3/Cpt usually fr/ANGLICO. That's public knowledge fr/an article I read a few yrs ago on ANGLICO, I'll try & find it for you.

 

[SCCO_Marine]

Just because some Marine who might have reenlisted into the Army and somehow ended up in CAG doesn't count as the Marine Corps contribution to JSOC.

Also from the 2003 article "The USMC-SOCom Connection":

The USMC-SOCOM Connection

By OTTO KREISHER

Otto Kreisher is a reporter for Copley News Service

...The Marine Corps has never assigned any of its units to SOCOM, but hundreds of individual Marines have served with special operations forces on exchange duty. There currently are 105 Marines in the elite force--serving as helicopter pilots, as intelligence officers, and in other specialized duties.

...In February, Master Gunnery Sgt. Joseph G. Settelen received the Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict Achievement Award, presented by the National Defense Industrial Association, for service that included classified duties around the world with an unnamed Defense Department unit.

 

[car]

This is a silly argument. There are members of every service serving on many joint staffs - in this case, I can personally say that I have seen in HQs, both in the States and elsewhere, men and women, all Wariors, from all of the services. And they weren't just attached staff drones who no one paid attention to - they were assigned members of Joint Special Operations staffs.

 

[Rabid Badger]

I'm one of those 'enablers'.

We train the Intel MSOB'S.

PM for more.

 

[dknob]

wow how naieve my posts were back then talking about a JSOC all Marine unit CT unit.

I realize today 2 years later that there will never be a JSOC SMU comprised of mostly Marines. The US Government would never do anything so redundant.

 

[Brill]

wow how naieve my posts were ... The US Government would never do anything so redundant.

Oh, no...never.

Necroposter.

 

[hvgc]

Holy crap. ANOTHER MARSOC unit? How big is it going to grow?

My concern is twofold; 1) this may be a beast that consumes a lot of resources with little return and 2) dilution of MARSOC. It seemed that it worked just fine having an intel unit in MSOSG; why did intel need it's own battalion? What's next; MARSOC communications battalion? MARSOC supply battalion?

its a little bit of re naming