Don Baldwin, executive officer of the Marine Corps' 9th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group, on Okinawa. The shift away from the current six-month rotation will be phased in starting this summer, Baldwin said. It was really hard, he said, to send Marines to Mu Juk for six months, train them, then by the time they were ready, their rotation was done. It became more and more difficult. It also helps morale, Baldwin said.
Marines are like anybody else.
They very much like to have a clear vision of what's going on in their future, as much as possible.