Taiwan's Republic of China Marine Corps 66th Marine Brigade, known as “Vanguard,” take part in an amphibious assault exercise on a beach in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on July 15, 2021. © Taiwan Military News Agency / Ministry of National Defense
Newsweek: U.S. Marines Training Taiwan Elite Troops in Guam
A platoon of Taiwan's elite soldiers traveled to Guam to receive a month of combat training with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), according to a local newspaper report that was acknowledged by Taiwan's top defense official.
Just under 40 members of Taiwan's Republic of China Marine Corps (ROCMC) 99th Marine Brigade were selected to take part in exercises including amphibious and airborne assault, urban warfare and "joint operations" training, led by their American counterparts, Apple Daily reported.
Speaking outside the Taiwanese legislature early on Tuesday, Taiwan Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said: "We have a long history of exchanges and cooperation with the United States.
There is necessary interaction on some levels, and this forms part of the exchanges."
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Update #1: Taiwan hints US military is training 40 of its marines in Guam (SCMP)
Update #2: US Marines Training Taiwanese Troops at Base in Guam (Antiwar.com)
WNU Editor: Only 40 marines being trained?
3 comments:
If you're training not just SOF, but specialites within the SOF, then it makes sense. You can teach 30, 40, 50 special forces things that are difficult to get across when it's 200, 300, 400 troops. Hopefully, they have the time to train 2 or 3 more of the same size groups. Once you have a super well trained platoon, they in turn can take it back home and train others.
Plus you don't want to train all the elites at the same time and leave Taiwan defenseless for 1 month.
As 2:45 pointed out during an initial push trainers train cadres, who train others in turn.
Even the movie "Dune" gets that right.
(891) I will take 100 of your warriors and train them.
(892) This 100 will train the thousands that remain.
https://movietranscript.blogspot.com/2016/01/1984-dune-english-transcripts.html
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