Marine Corps

In a completely different vein than the last post:

I have heard that there are those among the enemy who actually believe recruits are required to kill their mothers before they can become Marines. Whether or not that's true, it is obvious that the enemy fears the Marine Corps far more than they fear the Army. There's a detachment from my platoon at a base in Iraq that has been officially turned over from the Marine Corps to the Army. The base has gone on with few incidents of attack for quite some time, but almost as soon as all of the Marine Corps left (minus the detachment from my platoon) there were several attacks on the base and in the city included three vehicle borne IEDs targeting civilians and three sniper attacks against (army) soldiers.

There could definitely be other explanations as to why the level of attacks have increased since the Army took over other than the fact that enemy fears them less than us, but it's certainly an interesting coincidence if nothing else.