freaking Biden wants to set the whole world on fire : Marines provide more details on short-notice deployment to Middle East

Marine spokesman Lt. Col. L. L. Gilbert told Marine Corps Times at the time that approximately 20 Marines would “temporarily provide routine air defense support to a larger, layered air-defense effort within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.” Back then, he declined to elaborate further, citing operational security.

Now, the #Marine Corps has specified that 17 Marines from the expeditionary unit’s low-altitude air-defense detachment were deployed to #Kuwait in support of U.S. Army Central, the Army formation focused on the Middle East and surrounding countries.

The spokespersons’ statements didn’t offer more specifics about the impetus for the deployment.

Gilbert declined to name the air-defense system the detachment used. That information is sensitive, he said.

“What I can say is that ‘Low-Altitude Air Defense’ captures both the proper title of the unit and the characterization of their mission,” he said in a follow-up statement to Marine Corps Times on Monday. “It is also accurate to say, as we have before, that they served as a cog in the wheel of a larger, layered air-defense effort within the (area of responsibility).”

#Syria #Russia #Iran #Israel #Biddn #WarMonger
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/06/12/marines-provide-more-details-on-short-notice-deployment-to-middle-east/