Gidget Fuentes,USNI News
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. The Marine Corps touts its ship-based Marine expeditionary unit deployments as its travel-to, and 911 force when needed. The Navy highlights its amphibious ready groups for the forward presence and power projection it gives abroad combatant commanders.
We're going to do whatever is asked,Col. Clay C. Tipton, who commands the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or said during a Wednesday roundtable with journalists. The 2400-member Camp Pendleton-based force returned domestic in mid-May from a seven-month deployment with San Diego-based Makin Island Amphibious...
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