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| Lieutenant Colonel Christian Harshberger, the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response executive officer and commanding officer of the task force's Aviation Combat Element (ACE), receives an appreciation award from Italian Rear Admiral Paolo Treu, right, the Chief of Italian Navy Aviation Department, aboard Taranto-Grottaglie Air Base, Italy, July 28, 2013. The award was given in recognition of the work the ACE Marines put into an Osprey presentation held to familiarize Italian military leaders with the capabilities of the Osprey. SP-MAGTF Crisis Response is a rotational force of approximately 500 Marines and sailors sourced from a variety of Marine Corps units to include II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. The mission of the task-organized deployment-force is to respond to potential crises in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility. (Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Caleb McDonald/ Released) |
Excuse me but....WHAT THE FUCK!
If you're a Crisis Response Force and you have aircraft and personnel supposedly forward deployed because an incident could kick off at anytime requiring you to fly out and kick ass........
AND THEY CAN SEND AIRCRAFT FOR FAMILIARIZATION AND CELEBRATORY MISSIONS???
I suspected that this was nothing more than a cover for administration indecision when it came to Benghazi. Others have suspected that the unit is a test bed for what some in the Marine Corps consider the future.
One thing it obviously isn't is a real crisis response force. Training, workouts, maintenance 24/7 and more of the above with joy coming at the end of your deployment is how it was once done.
This thing is something different. I'll be watching these guys closely.
Well they have to do something while a crisis is being invented.. Why not mutual masturbation?
ReplyDeleteI think this will go one of two ways: quietly disbanded in a few months or this is just the prelude to moving a lot more assets to Africa or Southern Europe.
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