In '95 (might have been '97, memories are dim), I remember the last MarDet had been stood down...and then less than a year later as I deployed with 1st Bn, 3d Marines we were asked to provide a rifle platoon (minus) to serve six months on an Aircraft Carrier for just this type of mission.
I served with the MarDet, USS Midway (CV-41) for three years in the mid-80s. A very memorable tour, and I frequently think of it as the best tour I had in 24 years.
If MarDets do come back in some fashion, I think it's a good thing.
What do Marines have to put everybody else out of a job.Marines on Coast Guard Cutters sounds a little whack but we are a naval infantry and expanding our missions.
Now that the war is winding down and the Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force are still cutting back, I think the services are simply trying to find better ways to utilize the resources they have. If I were a Sailor or Coastie, I'd probably feel a heck of a lot safer knowing a Devil was standing at the ready while I inspected a suspect vessel.
Deanosaur, When I was stationed in Rota, Spain, as part of Marine Corps Security Force Company Europe, in 2003-2005, one of our primary missions was security of US and Friendly flaged ships transiting the Strait of Gibraltar.
A common mission might have us go as a squad out in a Spanish destroyer out in the Atlantic, do a small boat transfer to a huge MSC ship, then stand post for the transit of the STROG, then transfer back over to a US or spanish ship, or a German patrol boat and cruise back through STROG to Rota. Sometimes we got lucky and would ride a ship all the way to Souda Bay or Sigonella, get some libo and fly back to spain. Good times.
Originally posted by betiostripe: What do Marines have to put everybody else out of a job.Marines on Coast Guard Cutters sounds a little whack but we are a naval infantry and expanding our missions.
Think about it
and "Perform such other duties as the President may direct"
He can direct duties a Marine on ship and the Navy and Coast guard have to to support him
