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Government Continues To Assess Crisis-Response Force Base In EUCOM

/ June 7, 2013 at 9:12 PM
A new Marine Corps crisis response team that falls under the control of U.S. Africa Command is being based at Morón Air Base in Spain while the service continues to assess the appropriate location for the unit, a service spokesman told Inside the Navy . A special purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force for crisis response (SP-MAGTF CR) is a rotational contingent of approximately 500 Marines, sailors and support elements. The unit is capable of responding to a broad range of...

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