The USMC will drive you crazy !!!

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April 20th, 2023, 03:47 PM

Suhiir

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Re: The USMC will drive you crazy !!!

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Originally Posted by Karagin

Army MPs doing convoy security and counter guerrilla work? On what planet was this and when? I never saw them doing ANYTHING in Iraq or Afghanistan but writing tickets and crying about being there.

You and I both know official doctrine and reality tend to have a way of being not quite the same.

Besides given the situation in Afghanistan (i.e. IEDs) I don't think their peacetime training was really adequate to the situation. And the whole thing was a counter guerrilla so ...

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