Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
A short NYT article on the declining USMC presence and their replacement by:

As a DoS veteran of Afghanistan remarked this week:
As a matter of pure conjecture, I'd guess it was because the Marine Corps wanted into Afghan, and the Army said something along the lines of "Great--we already own all this battlespace, and we're not giving it up, and we don't really want you around us, so where can we send you? Hey, the British could use some help in Helmand!" Or something to that effect.