A career infantry officer, Berger was also a company commander and a battalion operations officer for the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion. He is a graduate of the Corps’ tough Amphibious Reconnaissance School, Army Ranger School and is a qualified parachutist and combat diver. His nomination ...
seen more than their share of Sh*t Sandwiches, and returned home to tell the tale. Lucky would be a USMC bulldog. I contacted my best friend from high school who was an accomplished artist and novelist. Craig MacIntosh had served as an infantry officer in Vietnam...
John "Psycho" RuffiniHMM-3642022- Present Born in Newport Beach, California. October 1988, graduated boot camp at MCRD San Diego as a Marine Corps Reservist and went to the School of Infantry / Light Armored Vehicle course. November 1990, his reserve un
While not a requirement, Marines are also highly encouraged to take a few courses through the Marine Corps Institute in order to be competitive. These include Land Navigation (MCI 0381), Infantry Patrolling (MCI 0335), Forward Observer Procedures (MCI 0861) and Reconnaissance Marine (MCI 0332)....
There were about fifty guys that were organized into a ranger-like platoon that conducted patrols, land nav exercises, and various infantry activities on weekends. The Army provided blank ammo for the ROTC M-1s and stuff. Those of us that were Marine Options in the Navy ROTC “joined” the...
Brown Belt is the minimum training goal of all infantrymen. Purpose and principles remain the same as in Gray Belt. Prerequisites: Recommendation of reporting senior Complete Green Belt sustainment and integration training Complete PME Training Hours: A minimum of 18.5 hours, excluding remedial ...
I'll do intel or infantry, it doesn't really matter to me but I just don't want to get stuck as a cook or something that I have no interest in. She's been really busy lately, she put in like 10 people to MEPS already this month, so I know she's got alot to do, but how...
The GCE is the Battalion Landing Team (BLT), an infantry battalion reinforced with artillery, Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV's), Light Armored Reconnaissance assets, Tanks, Engineers and a Division Reconnaissance platoon. The Aviation Combat Element (ACE) is a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HM...
About the author...Otto Lehrack served two tours of duty in Vietnam, the first (1967-68) in the infantry as a captain and commanding officer of India Company, Third Battalion, Third Marines and the second (1970-71) in signals intelligence as a major and operations officer, First Radio ...