Marine Corps Topics of Interest

"The Marine Corps is America's Force in Readiness - a balanced air-ground-logistics team. We are forward-deployed and forward-engaged; shaping, training, deterring, and responding to all manner of crisis and contigencies. We create options and and decision space for our Nation's leaders. Alert and ready, we respond to today's crisis, with today's force ... TODAY. Responsive and scalable, we team with other services, allies and interagency partners. We enable and participate in hjoint and combined operations of any magnitude. A middleweight force, we are light enough to get there quickly, but heavy enough to carry the day upon arrival, and capable of operating independent of local infrastructure. We operate throughout the spectrum of threats - irregular, hybrid, conventional - or the shady areas where they overlap. Marines are ready to respond whenever the Nation calls ... whever the President may direct."

-- General James F. Amos

Expeditionary Force - an armed force organized to accomplish a specific objective in a foreign country.

-- Joint Publication 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.

Expeditionary unit deploys as America's force in readiness. Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. 14 Nov 2011.