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PUERTO ALDEA, Chile — U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group conducted a Subject Matter Expert Exchange with the Chilean Marine Corps’ 2nd Marine Detachment “Miller,” May 13-18. The three Marines with MCSCG who participated in the exchange shared their personal expertise with their Chilean counterparts in order to foster relationships and build interoperability between the two nations.
U.S. Marine Capt. Blaine Barby, an infantry officer and native of Beaver, Okla., Capt. Devin Myler, an F-18 pilot and native of Washington, D.C., Gunnery Sgt. Shaun Leek, the MCSCG fires chief and native of Virginia, Minn., native, and their Chilean counterparts shared each of their experience in military operations planning and coordination of air and surface delivered fires during the exchange.
“It is particularly important to share [tactics, techniques, and procedures] for integrating surface [artillery, mortars, naval guns] and air-delivered fires,” said Myler, who is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. “Detachment Miller is a professional and extremely capable fighting force. In terms of capabilities, character, and spirit, the Marines of Detachment Miller resemble United States Marines.”
“The Chilean Marine Corps shares similar institutional values and warrior culture as our own Marine Corps,” added Lt. Col. Samuel Carrasco, a Marine Corps exchange officer in Chile. “The Chilean Marine Corps has been deeply involved and committed to … (assisting) in global challenges; most recently in Haiti.”
Carrasco, who is a native of Chicago, said it is clear to him that the Chilean Marines bring a lot to the table in terms of overcoming regional challenges as recently demonstrated through their dedicated assistance in disaster recovery efforts.
“Increasing [U.S. and Chilean] partnership through professional military education and exchange programs will pay huge dividends for all of us in meeting common objectives for the peace and stability of our hemisphere,” said Carrasco.
Subject Matter Expert Exchanges are part of a long-term regional engagement plan of the U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South to increase service partnerships and improve each country's capabilities and interoperability.
Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group coordinates, manages, executes, and evaluates Security Cooperation programs and activities to ensure the unity of effort in building foreign Security Forces capacity and capability. Their mission is to assess, plan, educate and train their partner nation counterparts in order to facilitate U.S. Marine and regional Marine Force component support to combatant commander’s security cooperation objectives.
"These critical relationships promote multinational operations … and provide common access points between both countries,” said Myler. “In a globally distributed campaign, these activities become essential to shaping the operating environment."
| Date Taken: | 06.04.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 06.04.2012 12:51 |
| Story ID: | 89397 |
| Location: | PUERTO ALDEA, COQUIMBO, CL |
| Hometown: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
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