Why the US Marine Corps is not to be trifled with.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The Marines are not a heavy, mechanized force in the mold of the Army’s heavy brigade combat teams.
The U.S. Marine Corps prides itself on being America’s 911 force a fire brigade that the president can call upon to fight the nation’s battles in an emergency.
Though the Marines have largely been treated as a de facto second land army over the past dozen years, the service is an integral component of the Department of the Navy and is primarily a maritime force. Therefore, the Marines as a specialized amphibious force argue that they need unique hardware to conduct their unique missions. While the service has many different types of weapons, here is a selection of their five key systems:
March 5, 2021
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002 with the help of a paramilitary group the US government had designated a foreign terrorist organization, according to a former member.
A Medellin Court ordered to investigate the Bloque Metro’s use of terrorism to help Uribe become president in 2011 already, but has been stonewalled by the prosecution for a decade.
In fact, the prosecution denied the group allegedly founded by Uribe in 1996 even existed for years, according to the court.
In a testimony that came to light last year, a former member of Bloque Metro told a prosecutor in detail how the paramilitary group terrorized people into voting for Uribe in the presidential election organized and monitored by the father of President Ivan Duque.