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U.S. Marine Advisers Embeded With Afghan Troops Are Not Engaging In Direct Combat

A Marine Corps sniper with Task Force Southwest sights in with a M107 .50-caliber Special Applications Scoped Rifle during a security post for an advising mission with 1st Brigade, Afghan National Army 215th Corps as they conduct Operation Maiwand 12 at Camp Shorserack, Afghanistan, March 13. (Sgt. Conner Robbins/Marine Corps)

Marine Times: Marines ‘not at the point of contact’ in Afghanistan

Marines advisers embedded with Afghan troops near the front of the fight against the Taliban are not engaging in direct combat, according to the top Marine.

The comments from Marine Commandant Gen. Robert B. Neller Thursday at the Atlantic Council counter common perceptions that American military advisers in Afghanistan are directly involved in daily combat operations against the Taliban.

Those perceptions were heightened when Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, recently spearheaded a plan to have U.S. forces embedded at the battalion or kandak level. Previously, military advisers worked at the brigade level.

“Our involvement in the day to day tactical activities of the Afghans is minimal,” Neller told audience members at a defense strategy discussion Thursday. “We are not at the point of contact.”

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WNU Editor: It is only a matter of time before these Marines are engaged in combat .... whether they want to or not.

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