The Marines are rushing to stand up a new counter-drone team as stress tests spotlight gaps in their defenses US Marines based in Okinawa, Japan train with drones. Cpl. Joaquin Dela Torre/US Marine Corps Even top Marine units are struggling to confront the drone threat in training. The Corps is racing to catch up on counter-drone solutions. These efforts align with others on offense, such as the relatively new attack drone team. Hostile drones are challenging even highly trained US forces, which have struggled to contend with constant surveillance and attack in realistic combat scenarios. The Marine Corps is scrambling for answers, including standing up a new counter-drone team. During a recent arduous pre-deployment training exercise, a highly proficient Marine unit ran into trouble as they confronted the drone threat in a rigorous and complex stress test, a Marine general shared during a panel event on Tuesday at Modern Day Marine in Washington, DC. "It went about as expected," said Maj. Gen.…