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Subject: What do SARCs do?
colts    2/2/2007 6:32:24 PM
a good friend of mine has wanted to be a navy seal his whole life, anyway his eye sight is way to bad and they said he cant get a waiver for it (he is in Corpsman A school right now in illinios) they said he might be able to get SARC, and he asked me to find out all i can about it. Ive done some research but cant find much detailed info. What I found out was that they are Corpsman attached to Force Recon battalions, and they go through all the same schools as FR. Is this true? and is there more?
 
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GOP       2/5/2007 8:22:05 PM
Since the MEU(SOC) program in the late eighties they've been doing some real high speed stuff.  Their getting ready to expand big time b/c every body wants them.  Their in heavy request by US Army unit in both Iraq and Afgh. SOCOM and the DEA down in Colombia.

Newsflash: The US is involved in the GWOT, every SOF unit is extremely busy

 
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BadNews       2/5/2007 9:25:30 PM


Since the MEU(SOC) program in the late eighties they've been doing some real high speed stuff.  Their getting ready to expand big time b/c every body wants them.  Their in heavy request by US Army unit in both Iraq and Afgh. SOCOM and the DEA down in Colombia.



Newsflash: The US is involved in the GWOT, every SOF unit is extremely busy



It's not a News Flash to me, SCCO in his youthful exhuberance perhaps is misunderstood, or misundestands.
The USMC was NOT by Choice part of SOCOM, Force Recon's primary function was deep recon for the MEU, now with MARSOC, that has changed, or shall I say is changing.... The Force recon units are transitioning to the SF role to include a Foriegn Military Training Unit. But they are NOT there yet.
 
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GOP       2/5/2007 9:47:25 PM






Since the MEU(SOC) program in the late eighties they've been doing some real high speed stuff.  Their getting ready to expand big time b/c every body wants them.  Their in heavy request by US Army unit in both Iraq and Afgh. SOCOM and the DEA down in Colombia.





Newsflash: The US is involved in the GWOT, every SOF unit is extremely busy




It's not a News Flash to me, SCCO in his youthful exhuberance perhaps is misunderstood, or misundestands.

The USMC was NOT by Choice part of SOCOM, Force Recon's primary function was deep recon for the MEU, now with MARSOC, that has changed, or shall I say is changing.... The Force recon units are transitioning to the SF role to include a Foriegn Military Training Unit. But they are NOT there yet.


I agree with you, and I know you understand. SCCO always has some bs spin to put on his great Corps, whereas he routinely dogs and bashes guys from other branch's who disagree with him.
 
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BadNews    Combat Engineers   2/5/2007 10:03:07 PM
Hey Colt,
 
Combat Engineers are awesome charactors that do amazing things, like clearing mine fields, breeching obstacles and bridging gaps many times under fire. They fight/defend, they build and also destroy and they very often lead the way.
 
 
 
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colts    badnews   2/5/2007 10:26:50 PM
thanks bad news.  Just out of curiosity are any attached to a recon battalion?  
 
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Yimmy       2/5/2007 10:38:20 PM
Does America use Assault Pioneer units in your infantry, or are all such jobs undertaken by your Combat Engineers?
 
 
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BadNews       2/5/2007 10:40:41 PM
I know some Combat Engineers that managed to qualify for recon, but the Corps, well pretty much US forces don't work that way. Everything is done in concert with everything else. Every MEU has at least a Platoon of Combat Engineers and a Platoon of Support Engineers,
 
Recon does not work alone either, they are there to support the MEU and in turn the MEU supports them, I use the MEU example because you are obviously looking at the Corps, The Army does it very much a similar way.
 
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BadNews       2/5/2007 10:53:04 PM

Does America use Assault Pioneer units in your infantry, or are all such jobs undertaken by your Combat Engineers?

 



Some Combat engineer units in the ARMY especially, are speciialized, but for the most part, Combat Engineers do it all. Yimmy
 
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BadNews    YIMMY   2/5/2007 10:58:34 PM
The Combat Engineers in the US do exactly the same thing the Assualt Pioneers Do for the UK  By specialized I meant highly specialized like EOD and such. Engineers are awesome creatures, they really do pave the way for the grunts and the armor forces
 
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SCCOMarine       2/6/2007 11:26:53 AM

Not there yet! Force Recon has been on the same level and beyond since the beginning.  The Marines didn't join SOCOM out of policy not ability.  I could see if I was just talking the was nothing to back up what I say.   Like for years after SOCOM's birth Marines have said were as good or better than any unit.  BUT THERE WAS NO PROOF!  But thats what the Det was formed to PROVE!! 

 

It wasn't some new unit with new training.  It was Marines pulled from existing units doing the same jobs the do in the Corps, just doing it for SOCOM and using the same training guidelines that FR uses for an MSPF.  It was nothing new.  And thats all they were, an MSPF.

 

And what happened?  The report, written by the Joint Special Operation Univ., PROVED them RIGHT!! Read it!  It’s declassified and on the Web.

 

 
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