So now the Marine Corps is building a Littoral Combat Force out of MEUs???? When did we start doing this?

 

Ok. I'm trying to make heads and tails of this thing.  In the old Corps (guess I have to call it that now), MEF is the biggest, MEB is your medium/flex force for major combat, MEU is your crisis response show the flag force and SPMAGTF is for special circumstances/don't require a full up MEU.

So when did this Littoral Combat Force come into being?  We've done "single ship amphibious operations" for a little while now but they flew under the banner of the MEU.

Screw it.  Read the announcement (click on it to expand) and some brainiac tell me where I'm going wrong with this.  FUCK MAN they even use SPMAGTF in the description of this thing!  I don't get it.  If this is just more fucking branding then HQMC needs an enema.