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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by timewizard on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:03AM (#44233574)
There's an entire division of the military that is literally police. They serve a similar function to their civilian counterparts. There's also intelligence and logistics units.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by catlifeonmars on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:27AM (#44233736)
2/7 is an infantry battalion. They have no training or experience policing.

I was a member of an infantry battalion once tasked with doing policing in a foreign country. Let me just say that the outcome was exactly what you’d expect. We were very effective at responding with overwhelming force to attacks by an insurgency but pretty ineffective at keeping the peace.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by closewith on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:57AM (#44233906)
> We were very effective at responding with overwhelming force to attacks by an insurgency

I don't think you were, since all US COIN operations in living memory have been abject failures.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by catlifeonmars on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:30AM (#44234114)
Heh not wrong but I think you stopped reading at “we were very effective”

I never said we were effective at counterinsurgency ops

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by kulahan on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:41AM (#44233822)
Well sure, but their police activities are limited to government installations. Their jurisdictions do not extend to “everywhere”
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