Wednesday, September 12, 2012

FAST Company has embassy reinforcement mission now?

MSNBC is reporting a FAST Company is going to reinforce the embassy in Libya.

Interesting.

Traditionally the MEU has the reinforcement mission set.  IF a FAST Company is actually deploying then we're seeing the MEU being degraded to support specialty units.  The MEU's MV-22's will likely be "requested" to move them to the area and we will see their deployment pattern altered to support the supporters.

Curious.

Clarification:
FAST Company deploys ahead of an incident.  If intel indicated that trouble was coming then you'd send in a FAST Team.  Once trouble hits then you need the resources of the MEU.  If not then you're robbing the MEU to support the FAST Team.. not good.