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Reuters: Top US Marine’s wish-list for Trump goes well beyond troop hikes

By Reuters.
(FILES) This file photo taken on November 19, 2016 shows US President-elect Donald Trump shaking hands with retired United States Marine Corps General James Mattis after their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump has reportedly selected retired Mattis as his secretary of defense, according to US media citing a source close to the transition team.
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U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller, like much of the Pentagon top brass, is pretty happy about President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to rebuild America’s military after years of congressionally imposed spending caps.

But ask Neller about Trump’s main proposal to increase the number of Marine infantry battalions from 24 today to 36, and he pauses.

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