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Two MARSOC marines killed in Iraq
The Marines were supporting Afghan commandos in clearing a tunnel / cave complex of ISIL troglodytes. They claim that they killed all of the trogs, but then why didn't they take the MARSOC kIAs with them? (They had to launch another mission to retrieve them.)
As a side note, the USMC is considering ending MARSOC (probably merge them back into Recon). They want all Marines supporting the fleet. MARSOC supports Joint Special Ops Command.Two members of a Marine Special Operations team were killed in Iraq during an operation targeting a mountain cave complex that Islamic State militants were using as a hideout, marking the first U.S. combat deaths in the country since last summer, U.S. and Iraqi military officials said Monday.
The operation Sunday required the coalition to dispatch reinforcement forces to recover the remains of the Americans who were killed from the caves, said Army Col. Myles Caggins, a U.S. military spokesman. It took nearly six hours to do so, he said.
The service members’ identities were being withheld as family members were notified.
The deaths occurred as Iraqi counterterrorism forces, backed by American military advisers, carried out operations in a series of tunnels in the area. The Iraqi military released a statement saying that at least 25 Islamic State fighters were killed and that nine tunnels and a training camp were destroyed.
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Originally Posted by Peter1469
