In 2006, as the Iraqi insurgency was spreading throughout Iraq's Al Anbar Province, Marines on patrol were facing an increasing threat in the form of IED attacks and sniper fire. As intelligence officials on the ground analyzed the data of these attacks, they began to see an alarming trend beginning to form: not only was our enemy actively hunting us, they were also becoming more sophisticated in their planning. General James Mattis, the Marine Corps' Leonidas and at the time the I Marine Expeditionary Force Commander, responsible for leading all of the Marines in Iraq (at the time of this post he is serving as the CENTCOM Commander in charge of all military personnel in the Middle East) acknowledged that this situation was unacceptable and directed the creation of the Combat Hunter Program.
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The Evolution of Combat Hunter
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In 2006, as the Iraqi insurgency was spreading throughout Iraq's Al Anbar Province, Marines on patrol were facing an increasing threat in the form of IED attacks and sniper fire. As intelligence officials on the ground analyzed the data of these attacks, they began to see an alarming trend beginning to form: not only was our enemy actively hunting us, they were also becoming more sophisticated in their planning. General James Mattis, the Marine Corps' Leonidas and at the time the I Marine Expeditionary Force Commander, responsible for leading all of the Marines in Iraq (at the time of this post he is serving as the CENTCOM Commander in charge of all military personnel in the Middle East) acknowledged that this situation was unacceptable and directed the creation of the Combat Hunter Program.