Witness: Spec-ops company lacked support

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Witness: Spec-ops company lacked support
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 5:51:30 EST

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — The first Marine spec-ops company sent into the fight “lacked in all areas of support” when it got to Afghanistan, an Army logistics officer said Monday.

That only enhanced the animosity special operations forces leaders felt toward Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command’s Fox Company, said Maj. Derik Erickson, the Army logistician assigned to help the company get everything from fuel to food.

“MSOC Fox was, in essence, pushed on ,” Erickson said.

Erickson was the last witness called to testify in the court of inquiry looking into the March 4 incident in which a Fox Company platoon’s convoy was attacked by a suicide vehicle bomb in Nangarhar province.

Marines in the convoy say they came under small-arms fire immediately after the blast and returned fire. They’re accused of indiscriminately firing at and killing more than a dozen Afghan civilians and wounding numerous others.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/01/marine_marsoc_update_080128/



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