Navy League 2014: USMC commandant confirms plans for special-purpose MAGTF for US Southern Command

The US Marine Corps (USMC) will create a special-purpose task force by the 2020 timeframe to increase US responsiveness in the Latin America region, the USMC's chief officer confirmed on 7 April. "We're going to build a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force [SP-MAGTF] down there and