Now this partnership makes sense!!!!

Now I can get behind this partnership.

There are a few Army units that I consider squared away (probably because I got a chance to see them up close).

The 82nd, 101st, 10th Mountain and 25th are all good to go.  With that being said this news puts a smile on my face.  via Marine Times.

The two services are planning a series of exercises likely to take place in North Carolina, where tens of thousands of soldiers and Marines are based at Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, which are located just 90 miles apart. With the future security environment uncertain, and an end in sight to combat operations in Afghanistan, the services are discussing ways to leverage complimentary capabilities, said Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, the Corps’ deputy commandant for combat development and integration who serves also as commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va.
“As we look at new strategies, as we look at potential areas of operations in the Pacific, I think it’s very natural that the Marines and the Army discuss it … should we have to go somewhere where people don’t want us to go,” Mills said.

You can bet that Bold Alligator was the primer that got the Army on board with doing Forcible Entry training with the Marine Corps.

Good thing too.

These are the units that will win battles in the Pacific.  For all the Special Ops fan boys out there (and that includes the bastards in the White House and Pentagon), they just don't work in areas with a police force or military.

In those situations Special Ops teams will be isolated, pinned down and destroyed in place.

And that characterizes the Pacific battlespace.  In that arena you need the rapid response and firepower that comes with an MEU or a Ready Battalion from the 82nd.