The Marine Corps is ending its crisis response deployments developed after the 2012 attack on the Benghazi, Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final deployment as part of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force \u2013 Crisis Response \u2013 Central Command, or SPMAGTF-CR-CC, ended in October 2021, Capt. Ryan Bruce, a Marine Corps spokesman, told Marine Corps Times on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It \u201cwill not be replaced by another rotational Marine Air Ground Task Force,\u201d Bruce said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At its height, the Marine Corps had three congruent special purpose Marine air-ground task forces on crisis response missions to Southern Command, Africa Command and Central Command \u2015 but the Corps\u2019 new focus on a potential fight with China may have killed the crisis response formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\t