Marine Force Recon Black?

[96B]

I recently talked to a Marine on leave who lives near me and he is a crew chief on a CH-46 Sea Knight... I was asking him about Force Recon and he explained to me that there were something like three levels of it and that there is a new unit or at least he told me he learned of it about a month ago called Force Recon Black. Does anybody have any information regarding this unit? Could it be what is going under SOCOM for the USMC? Ive searched all over and have yet to find a shred of info on this unit, if any of you guys or gals out there know anything please post here.

[hood]

well it looks like usmc.mil is down right now, but i was reading just the other day that the usmc has either just gotten, or is fighting to expand their special operations capable force into a true special operations unit, separate from the rest, but similiar to the navy's SEALs and the army's SF. I'll post the link when their site is back up. It might be what you're talking about.

[100%Marine]

Black in terms of Force Recon means a type of mission in forward deployed unit. Let me explain.
During and after a twelve-eighteen month workup (training) various units combine to form a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force). These units include a Radio Recon Team, infantry battalion, scout/sniper team, aviation combat element and Force Recon platoon. Six months into the workup scout/snipers and fr teams marry up and are called Maritime Special Purpose Force. This unit trains for green and black operations during deployment. Remember, during deployment the MAGTF is literally its own air force, armor, infantry, civil affairs, hospital, SOF and anything else you can think of. MSPF is the Special Operations Capable Unit during deployment, since the unit trains and somethimes exceeds training proficiency set by SOCCOM. That is why they are called SOC. In a side note, although SeALs are detached, the Colonel of MAGTF, will call up MSPF first. In addition SeALs, have been moving away from Marine det.
What is black?? Simply missions involving GOplat and other maritime takedowns. Green? The hydrosurveillance, deep recon, and other intelligence missions.

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He also may have meant there was battalion recon, force recon, and the new SOCOM Det 1.

[96B]

Thanks alot for the info guys