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19 November 2018, 17:10
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Trailer Platoon History
Quick question for the old salts around here - do any of you know the approximate year when MEUs started to designate and train a Trailer/Security Platoon? Just trying to establish an approximate length of time that the Security Element mission has existed.
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#3
19 November 2018, 19:15
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I know it was originally called "cover" platoon, or at least at some point prior to trailer platoon.
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#4
19 November 2018, 20:01
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Formalized 88/89 depending on coast.
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20 November 2018, 00:17
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Great, exactly the info I was after. SB or 8654, did SOTG run a course for the platoon from the beginning, or did that come about later?
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"This is how it is when the war machine rolls back and forth. You take your pleasure where you can and when you can, and let the circumstances be damned. For tomorrow you may be somewhere else." - Cass "I understand all of the words you used, but I don't know what you just said." - Gen. Hagee speaking to the MEU S-3
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#7
20 November 2018, 07:31
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From 88ish on SOTG ran courses for the security element.
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