Marine ThugBuster Unit Open for Business in 6 to 8 months - via MSNBC.com

The Marine Corps latest contribution to WW IV aka The Thug Wars is MARSOC--Marine Special Operations Command otherwise known, by moi, as the "who ya' gonna' call:Thugbusters!" dedicated to the mission statement that all thuggies should be ushered at once to the nearest exit ramp for the air locker. The new 2600 man unit is the brain child of "Dances w/Marines" Rummy whose persistence in the face of over whelming resistence to dance from Marine Corps Brass left Rumsfeld exasperated beyond patience for a old meat and fire eater. At Socom headquarters on Oct. 11, he said the talks had gone "painfully" slow. Sounding like Master Yoda he said: "Forever, it's taken," . "I will be 85 before it's finished, I'm afraid."

"After learning the Marines were not in the mix, Rumsfeld decided that long-standing position should change. The Marines "wanted to do what they do, and they did not want that pool of people to be used for that function," Rumsfeld said. "I thought that was maybe fine before but not so good now." As initial steps, the Marines added liaison officers at SoCom and expanded training initiatives with the command, SoCom officials said.
To test the concept in a real-world setting, a small Marine Corps special operations outfit known as "Detachment One" deployed to Iraq last year.
Rumsfeld, however, kept pushing for a permanent commitment."


As U.S. Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine wrote in a 2003 article for National Review Online, "Special operations units in the Marines are not accorded the same respect [by the Marine leadership] as they are in other branches. The Marines view special operations as simply another realm of warfighting. Marines are Marines, and no individual Marine or Marine unit is considered more elite than the other." That's long been the Corps' approach to special operations, and one of the reasons the Marine Corps successfully resisted becoming a component part the U.S. Defense Department's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) when it was formed back in 1986.

Anyway, that's all agnst outside the air locker. No more talk of who is gonna eat whose lunch and though the brass and senior NCO's at Force Recon are worried about how they are going to replace the troops MARSOC will take-- the commander's intent has been given. The new "who ya' gonna' call" team is set for Camp Lejune w/a regimental HQ a couple of BN's, support group and a training unit that will work with foreign military units under the watchful eyes of Brigadier Dennis Hejlik.
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