USMC Raiders

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by shahadi

There have been numerous announcements over the past several years of the re-naming of MARSOC units to Raiders, although as is understood, the MARSOC or Marine Special Operations Command remains as is. Subordinate units have now officially adopted the moniker, Raider.

And, yes thanks for clearing up the phantom Raider units in the current OOB...I'll take a peek at what you've uploaded for 2016 update. I would like to know, besides designating a unit as Raider, what distinguishes a Raider unit in the 2016 update.

There was a LOT of resistance in from many quarters to renaming MARSOC "Raiders". Give their historical purpose/uses (reconnaissance and raiding) the current Force Recon is much more akin to the original "Raiders".

As to what makes them different, in WinSPMBT they come on a 7-man squad made of a 3-man "scout" and a 4-man "engineer" team with TI, fancy weapons, and a morale/exp bonus better the Recon but less then SEALs. Or you can buy an entire MARSOC company (3 squads plus FO, hv snipers, and a javelin) which it how they'd likely be deployed to support some special op.