via Malayan Mail.
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 — The US military said yesterday it was deploying 1,000 Marines to support emergency relief operations in the Philippines following Super Typhoon Haiyan. About 900 troops will board two US Navy amphibious ships — the Japan-based USS Germantown and USS Ashland — and are due in the Philippines in about six days, Marine Forces Pacific said in a statement. An additional 100 Marines from the same unit will travel to the region by aircraft.Read it all at there house.
Be advised everyone. I've had some clown come to this site defending the MEB concept as devised by Amos and company.
Its a stupid concept.
A HA/DR response should be a SPMAGTF formation....at least if fighting wars is our number one priority. What happens if we continue this nonsense and an incident flares up in another part of the Pacific that demands the attention of a MEB? We won't have them available or we'll need to take one from another area. And why? Because we used a MEB staff when a SPMAGTF would have worked.
1000 Marines is not a Marine Expeditionary Brigade...unless we're going Army.
