MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE N.C. (May 02, 2013) -- Colonel Jeffrey W. Fultz relinquished command of Marine Special Operations Support Group (MSOSG), U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) to Col. Archibald M. McLellan during a Change of Command ceremony in front of the MARSOC Headquarters at Stone Bay on Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Under Col. Fultz’s tenure, MSOSG continued to contribute directly to MARSOC’s overseas contingency operations, conducting missions in more than 18 different countries in four Geographic Component Commands – U.S. Central Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Southern Command. Many of these missions have been focused on combat operations but have also included other activities such as partner nation training, security assistance and providing subject matter expert guidance.
MSOSG’s mission is to support MARSOC teams with critical enabling support and capabilities and to train, equip and deploy forces that are tasked with forging relationships that cross national and cultural barriers. The Support Group is a critical component of MARSOC’s core strength: scalable, task organized, fully enabled forces with robust Command and Control. MARSOC units have the ability to fuse critical information, influence key decision makers and synchronize operations to produce accurate operational and strategic effects because of the well trained Support Group Marines who are integrated throughout every MARSOC tactical formation.
Deploying a fully enabled unit is one of the distinguishing attributes of MARSOC...MARSOC units are fully enabled with intelligence, logistics, communications, multi-purpose canine support, joint tactical air controllers and explosive ordnance disposal. The MSOSG has recently established three new battalions as part of its “Right Force”, increasing MARSOC’s ability to deploy fully-enabled SOF supported with organic logistics and MSOSG will continue to increase in enablers and combat logistics manpower through 2016. As a result, MARSOC forces are capable of conducting widely distributed special operations in austere environments in whatever clime and place we are called upon.
After seven years in its existence, MARSOC continues to remain agile and provide highly skilled, strong, disciplined capable and mentally agile multidimensional operators to the battlefields of the future.
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