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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
I was looking through some old manuals I have, and for the 1980s timeframe, the Marines would attach support units to the regiment/battalion with the local commander attaching the support to specific units. The overall impression I get is that the Marines do not cross-attach to the degree that the Army does.
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Mostly because there are far fewer tanks in the Marines, to cross-attach like that. They do a lot of attaching when they form their MEUs, but assets like armor and engineers and the like are not cross-attached as often.