[RWebb]

Nope - not me.

But for some decades now, short Col.s in USMC have been trying to figure out how to head off the enemy menace.

After all, if you can put SF on a ship and land them by helo.... "Why do you need the Marines"/ title of an article, not my own sentence.



I will offer this: a MEF is a complete "little" package. Once US A is involved, things tend to snowball. There are political implications to the package concept also.

The other reason is historical. We've had Marines since before we actually existed as a nation. It would be really hard to end that.

But the problem still exists, and is still studied at the Naval War College.