Marines in Eastern Europe are practicing a little-used tactic — another sign they're getting ready for a 'big ass fight'

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July 19, 2018 7:21 PM

US Marines stationed in Romania deployed to Bulgaria for combine-arms training this month, and while there, they practiced a little-used tactic that is supposed to help counter armor and other vehicles.

Marines in Romania deployed to Bulgaria for combined-arms training this month.
During the exercises, they worked on a little-used tactic to counter armor and other vehicles.
It comes as US forces boost their presence in Europe to prepare for a potential conflict with a near-peer military like Russia.

The US Marine Corps' Black Sea Rotational Force left its base in Romania for training in Bulgaria this month, carrying out exercises that are another sign the US military is preparing for a kind of conflict that's different from what it has faced in recent decades.

A Marine Forces Europe and Africa release issued earlier this month said units from the rotational force were headed to Bulgaria's Novo Selo training area, "

"We deployed from the place where we're stationed at in Romania to this training area in Bulgaria. That way we can utilize the training areas out here that are a little better suited for the training that we're trying to accomplish," an unidentified Marine said in a video released this week by the command, first spotted by Marine Corps Times.

The Marines carried out a number of exercises focused on combined-arms proficiency and on building operational capacity.

I hope I'm wrong, but there's a war coming," he told the Marines in Norway, who are part of a new rotational force meant to expand training and boost readiness. "You're in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence."

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