In the final days of fiscal year 2014 the Marine Corps officially established a crisis-response force to support U.S. Central Command to coincide with the U.S. Military drawdown in Afghanistan, according to a service spokesman. In May, the Senate added $57.5 million to the Marine Corps budget to resource two special-purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-crisis response units in CENTCOM and U.S. Southern Command -- $10.9 million more than the service requested in its fiscal year 2015 unfunded priority list for...
