Marines are kind of like a self-contained organization when they show up. They bring all their toys with them--guns, armoured vehicles, helicopters, UAVs, everything. So when they come to a place to work, they really are a self-contained, all-encompassing piece.
We work so well with the Americans. Our doctrine is very similar. They have officers who train in our war college in Toronto, and we have officers who train in their war colleges in the U.S. Our ability to conduct, plan, and execute operations together goes back to our history of working together as partners but also to working within NATO. So whether working with them, with the Brits, with the Dutch, with the Germans, or others inside ISAF, we have a shared history of working together over the last number of years. And our time working together in Afghanistan has just further cemented that.
Working with them is easy because we think so alike in the way we operate on the ground, in the way we plan, and in the way we execute. And it's been very helpful to have them show up with the amount of capability they've had. It is a real enabler.