The Marine Corps has finalized the results of its 2010 force-structure review, setting the baseline for deeper force-structure cuts as the Pentagon moves to slash security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. Among the major changes in fiscal year 2012 is a plan to downgrade the II Marine Expeditionary Force headquarters from a three-star billet to a two-star job while shifting the three-star authority to the Marines' U.S. Central Command component (MARFORCENT), according to a...
