While the siege and bloody close combat conquest of the last ISIS warriors in their West Mossul stronghold continues, the sic regional commands under the Pentagon collaborate with civilian security services, like Homeland Security and DEA, to tackle possible recruits, infiltration and financing of such terror notably by human trafficking and drug trade, in the Southern case especially on the migration routes from Latin America, especially trough Colombia and Panama, to the US. Bases there are mainly involved in training men, some of whom will train local forces in allied countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, which is the theatre of longest continuous overseas Marines deployment, each time a challenge to fort the families at the home front. The senior enlisted officer advises the Pentagon from troops perspective.
—KGF Vissers