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Seeing as anything with a dailymail link makes me suspect, I read the opposite side: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/11/04/us-marin
by clutchdude 5y ago
Seeing as anything with a dailymail link makes me suspect, I read the opposite side: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/11/04/us-marine-corps-rebuffs-report-that-royal-marines-dominated-in-training-exercise/ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021...
> “ ‘Winners’ are never determined,” Capt. Zachary Colvin, the communications and strategy director with the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, told Military Times in a statement. “This exercise does not provide an opportunity to ‘surrender,’ ‘keep score,’ or ‘reset.’ The objective of the exercise is to heighten unit performance and increase readiness.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/voices/us-marines-didnt-surrender-british-training-exercise/ https://taskandpurpose.com/voices/us-marines-didnt-surrender...
> In short, among several statements made in the opening four paragraphs of the Telegraph article, none was accurate. I know this because – as they say – I was there.
- Veen 5y agoYou're right to suspect the Daily Mail, but I'm not sure the Marine Corp Times quoting a Marine Corp PR flack is a particularly unbiased source for this story, either.