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JTF-Q is responsible for the repositioning of U.S. forces within East Africa through Operation OCTAVE QUARTZ (OOQ), whose mission is to relocate U.S. DOD forces in Somalia to other East Africa operating locations while maintaining pressure on violent extremists and supporting partner forces. INDIAN OCEAN (Dec. 22, 2020) A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey from the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, consisting of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD8), the amphibious transport dock ships USS Somerset (LPD 25) and USS San Diego (LPD 22), the embarked 15th Marine Expedit...

Sink it altogether, it's the latest in the chain of unforced errors for which veterans are continuing to pay the price. joining me now amvets strategy officer and marine corps veteran, thank you for coming. >> thank you, kate. >> amvets very clearly had issues and concerns with jackson before all of this has come out. what do you think now? >> well, at the marine corps we have a term we use, charlie foxtrot, and it's cluster expletive that would pretty much sum up what weave watched over the last week and the best way to describe our reaction is a military strategy. it's called decapitation an...

Jack jacobs was came of on the worst day of his life that earned him the nationess highest military honor. so here is the citation that was read aloud on the day president richard things on placed the medal of honor around his neck. at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, captain jacobs then first lieutenant infantry distinguished himself while serving as assistant battalion adviser, second bat an al16th infantry ninth infan friday division. the second battalion was advancing to contact when it came under intense heavy machine gun and mortar fire from a vietcong battalion po...

The advantage for doing these type of capture -- first and foremost, is we want to capture these terrorists. we want to capture these bad guys because if we just kill them, we put a predator drone on it, and we kill them, there's no follow-on information for intelligence. so the best thing we always want to do is capture before we kill. >> the risk, i suppose the risk is what happened in somalia where they go in and don't get the man for sure. >> it is. it is much higher risk. but both of these organizations from the socom command element, these are the guys who conduct jason bourn tuype of op...

In that press conference initially police were saying that as many as six people were killed, and then they said at least six people were killed, and then they said six people were killed. i guess it's just very early in this investigation and they want to be cautious. >> well, i think what you also had is you had victims in critical condition and multiple hospitals, so keeping track of who had succumbed, who was hanging on, and the status of the shooter who becomes by chief seabrooks' count, the seventh victim. so in the beginning of these incidents, and i have been at the scenes of these thi...