Marines Looks to Expand Training Missions with Their American Counterparts Gina Harkins - Military Times
go to original March 25, 2014

Cpl James Hunt, with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, teaches Mexican marines ground fighting tactics in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. (Cpl. Brian Slaght/Marine Corps)

More Marines will be tapped to deploy south of the border as their Mexican counterparts look toward expanding the training mission between the two militaries, building on their recent successes in counter-narcotics operations.

Small teams of Marines have been regularly deploying to Mexico since October 2012 as part of the reserve component’s Security Force Assistance Training Teams.

Members of 4th Reconnaissance Battalion led the mission for a year, rotating teams to the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico for about two months at a time, according to a recently published newsletter from the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned.

Now those commitments could expand as the Mexican government and its marines consider accelerating the mission, the newsletter states.

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