The Marine Corps and the FID Mission?

[Boot]

With SOCOM's firm movement to field a much larger FID-capable force, USMC is purposefully stepping back from the once envisioned up-tick in the advisor role that would have been the next step beyone MCTAG, etc.

The Security Cooperation MAGTF concept is at the core of future theater engagement. It is not SOF, but full spectrum engagement. That, too, is manpower constrained by the current fight and is a future concept, not a current experiment, pilot, etc.

What do mean by "purosefully stepping back"?

[SWCAdmin]

What do mean by "purosefully stepping back"?

Sorry for delay. Lost the bubble on this thread.

At one point, MCTAG was a candidate for the SOF-ening of the Corps with a major emphasis on FID. Given SOCOM response to that mission through a recent decision to up-tick significant commitment of resources to it (near-ish future scaling proliferation of A teams, etc.) USMC considers that important METL adequately on track to be addressed and will devote blood and treasure elsewhere. Not to be confused with stepping away from key role advisors play in all ops and continued commitment to doing that well (e.g. SCMAGTF, etc.), but not a major outgrowth path.

Source: from CMC lips to my ears (in audience), relayed as accurately as my fallibility allows.