Marine Corps to Support Afghan Electronic Attack Missions from Qatar

In recent years Prowler detachments were regularly operating from Bagram in Afghanistan, tasked primarily in providing electronic support for ground operations, assisting ground forces in Afghanistan and Iraq with counter IED jamming, signals intelligence and selective jamming.

Supporting traditional marine corps missions, such as amphibious operations, and other high intensity warfare operations require different techniques, tactics and procedures the units currently deployed to Japan can practice.

Such activities are regularly performed in exercises they deploy to in Korea, Japan and other parts of the Pacific theatre.

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