The Philippine Marine Corps stood up a coastal defense regiment that looks similar to the MLR, Brady said, and the American regiment was on hand for the activation of the Philippine regiment’s new shore-based, anti-ship missile battery, similar to the MLR’s l...
Those changes are leading to an entirely new formation, the Marine littoral regiment, which will hold infantry, artillery, logistics and an anti-air battery. The moves are to enable small units of 75 Marines down to a squad-sized element to di...
ROUND: Bullet or artillery or mortar shell. RPG: Rocket Propelled Grenade, an enemy grenade fired from a device utilizing a small rocket propellant charge, greatly increasing its normal range. RLT: Regimental Landing Team, a US Marine infantry regiment specifically task organized and equipped to...
The new regiments are a slimmed down version — about 1,800 to 2,000 Marines — of the traditional infantry regiment, with missiles instead of conventional artillery, their own landing craft, anti-air battalions and other features purpose-designed for littoral com...
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The Germans almost had complete surprise when the offensive was launched on “December 16th, 1944, at 05:30” and the offensive start with “an artillery barrage of over 1,600 artillery pieces.” The assault took place across an “80 mile front [that] the 6th Panzer Army had to cover”...
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CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa (December 21, 2007) -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit received its first M777 Lightweight Howitzers recently on Camp Hansen as part of a Marine Corps-wide artillery upgrade. http://www.okinawa.usmc.mil/Public%20Affairs%20Info/Archive%20News%20Pages/2007/071221-howitze...
127. “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot. I’ll kill you all.”– Gen. James Mattis ...
“We found artillery propellant when we got out there. Propellant is what makes the artillery rounds go,” Hernandez said. “We also found a 155 mm artillery round. They were just stashing it. It wasn’t hooked up to anything.” EOD quickly disposed of the propellant with an incendiary ...