jonessa2
06-23-2003, 08:47 PM
June 20, 2003
Corps takes step to joining SoCom (http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=0-292925-1958797.php)
By Gidget Fuentes
Special to the Times
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – With a simple but historic ceremony June 20, the Marine Corps took one step closer to joining the elite commando world and ending nearly two decades of being a fringe player in U.S. military special operations.
A new 86-man unit, called the Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment, was officially recognized by top defense officials during the ceremony at the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton.
From a small set of buildings there, Lt. Col. Robert J. Coates, who has been selected for promotion to colonel, will oversee the 81 Marines and five Navy corpsmen. As envisioned, the unit will include four six-man teams of force reconnaissance men, each with a corpsman, along with special teams in radio reconnaissance, signals intelligence support and human intelligence exploitation and an intelligence “fusion” detachment. The unit also will have an intelligence platoon and a fire-support detachment.
more...... (http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=0-292925-1958797.php)
Corps takes step to joining SoCom (http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=0-292925-1958797.php)
By Gidget Fuentes
Special to the Times
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – With a simple but historic ceremony June 20, the Marine Corps took one step closer to joining the elite commando world and ending nearly two decades of being a fringe player in U.S. military special operations.
A new 86-man unit, called the Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment, was officially recognized by top defense officials during the ceremony at the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton.
From a small set of buildings there, Lt. Col. Robert J. Coates, who has been selected for promotion to colonel, will oversee the 81 Marines and five Navy corpsmen. As envisioned, the unit will include four six-man teams of force reconnaissance men, each with a corpsman, along with special teams in radio reconnaissance, signals intelligence support and human intelligence exploitation and an intelligence “fusion” detachment. The unit also will have an intelligence platoon and a fire-support detachment.
more...... (http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=0-292925-1958797.php)