Fighting heat and food, the marines have landed (click here)
April 20, 2012
THEY will stay for years, number up to 2500, possibly have their own aircraft and artillery, train with the Aboriginal-dominated Norforce unit and drop in to help in Asia-Pacific disaster zones alongside Australia's Diggers.
But whatever you do, don't call the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin part of a US base.
''No, no again,'' said Lieutenant-Colonel AnDroy Senegar when pressed on how much his operation looked like the forerunner of an official base.
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''We will build no infrastructure. We will subsist on Australian food. We will be part of the community. It will be a partnership. We will not be intrusive.''...
