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I'm not sure what basing 2500 Marines in Australia will do from the standpoint of US interests. From the Australian POV -- well, an American troop presence is always a mixed blessing. American troops are paid better then most of their counterparts in the world and they love to carouse and buy stuff for friends and family to send home, so economically it will be good for the community they're based in. But -- let's just say that American troops don't always put the best, shall we say, social face forward in other countries. Like I said, mixed blessing for the Australians.
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Like the U.S.S. Maine.
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![]() ![]() Are you suggesting we blow up some of our own U.S. military assets in Australia and use it as justification to blame a third party and declare war on them in order to jack pieces of their empire and add it to our own?
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I'm just glad I'm at the other end of the country and Darwin is rather isolated as well. Can't imagine it will be all that popular a posting given the heat, the torrential rain in the wet season and remoteness. Darwin does have a few beaches, but surf is rarely more than a few inches (unless there's a cyclone and it might kick up to a massive foot or two in height).
FYI the local major pastime is beer drinking and we're not talking the coloured water Americans claim to be alcoholic either.
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Probably a forward base for a MEU-ish sized unit, with surge capacity if more US forces are moving into/through the area for some sort of crisis. Basically a very small scale substitute (US base wise, not nation wise
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Currently the Australian dollar is hovering around parity with the US dollar.
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