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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
US has a whole lot of those "Special Forces" units, each for a different purpose and theater. Unlike the one-unit designation of KSK of the Bundeswehr which performs the main backbone of covert special operations (with the Paratrooper Brigade performing the overt ones such as FOFO and raid-type assaults on FIBUA), US has 4 of those high end special forces units (Delta, ST6, 24STS & ISA) and another team dedicated to picking them up (Pararescue). The overt ones are usually done by Airborne, Rangers or Marines.
Given how sticky missions are in Somalia, they are probably relying on the covert forces, so most of the people there are probably Delta/ST6 or maybe SAD and probably a couple of companies of Ranger/Airborne for base defence and permanently taking positions, since most of the aircraft there are meant to be dropping weapons based on hidden targeters rather than providing air support (which are usually done by helicopters).
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TBH, the article was over sensationalizing things, no surprise there.
Camp Lemonnier isn't some secret socom base, it just happens to be the only base the US have in Africa. There are actually a rather heavy presence of third-party and local nationals working on-base, with frequent traffics of British and German (even some S.Korean) troops that goes through on a daily basis.
And no, there is certainly no "couples of companies of Ranger/Airborne" running base defense - It used to be the Marines, as Camp Lemonnier was originally designated as a naval base (never knew why, as it's nowhere near the actual dock), but it has since been changed to an Army base, so army units would be the ones providing security. During the changeover (I was part of the last Marine security force), it was just some artillery unit that was rotated in for a few months as the end segment of their deployment.
I mean, what kind of "shadowy" base have literally hundreds of locals coming in and out every day to work on base, where the base personnel (especially the army and the officers
) goes off base every night downtown to party and get drunk? >_>