In CENTCOM and SOUTHCOM

Additional Marine Crisis-Response Units Contingent On Funds, Manpower

/ April 4, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Standing up two additional Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response units -- one in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility and another in U.S. Southern Command -- is contingent upon the Navy having the funding and manpower necessary to do so, according to a top Marine Corps official. The service, which last April stood up a rotational contingent of approximately 500 Marines, sailors and support elements along with six MV-22s and two KC-130Js in Morón, Spain, has been mulling...

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