Marines Plan Crisis-Response Team

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BY JULIAN E. BARNES
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is making plans to place Marine Corps special-operations teams aboard Navy ships in the Middle East and elsewhere, to serve as a rapid-reaction force that could respond to embassy attacks, hostage standoffs and other crises.
The move follows fierce criticism of the U.S. handling of the September attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, when no American military force was close enough to intervene and four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, were killed.
In the wake of the attack, the military has examined how to improve its rapid-response forces. Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marines, argues …
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