Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by IronDuke99

Wonder what Suhiir thinks of him?

Don't know anything about him other then what I read.

I was with 2nd MarDiv during Gulf I, Mattis commanded 1st MarDiv, so all I know is when the reserve units were activated it was decided to transfer most of the active duty MP's to 1st MarDiv and 2nd MarDiv got the activated reserve MP's. A few of us in specialized roles were retained in 2nd MarDiv; the CID folks (the US Navy/USMC equivalent of a police detective) , myself as a counter-terrorist specialist with an extensive background in NBC, and a couple others I don't recall.
As it turned out the reserve MP's had better training/background in convoy escort and POW handling then the active duty folks. Not too surprising as the active duty folks spend very little time training and concentrate almost entirely on law enforcement.

I do believe this is the first time the Secretary of defense has ever been a former Marine tho.