Personnel
The unit consisted of 81 Marines and 5 Navy Corpsmen divided among 4 sections:
- reconnaissance element (30 men)
- intelligence element (29 men), containing a headquarters element and
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- a Radio Reconnaissance Team (RRT), (9 men)
- a human intelligence (HumInt) exploitation team (HET), (6 men)
- an all-source fusion team (12 men)
- fires element (7 men)
- headquarters element
The original Marines picked to form the detachment were hand-picked from over 500 personnel records. Despite common misconception, Det One was not a beefed up Force Reconnaissance platoon. While the reconnaissance element was composed mostly of Force Recon Marines, they made up only 24 of the 86 members of the detachment. The detachment, though lacking organic aviation, operated under the Marine Air-Ground Task Force philosophy of leveraging integrated, complementary capabilities to be more effective than the sum of its parts.
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