Marines Won’t Move to Afghanistan Anytime Soon
by John Little on 5/12/2007Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway said the Marines are ready if needed but he and the SECDEF agreed that it isn’t the best use of their talents:
Being a garrison force is not what the Marine Corps brings to the table, the commandant said. “We’re expeditionary, and we do not get engaged in some of the long-term duties that you see in Germany, or Japan or Korea,” Conway explained. “We are much more mobile than that, and we want to keep that mobility and that flexibility and not get tied down.”
And they still have work to do it Iraq.
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