infantry school where they teach the basics of being part of the Queen of Battle. When all is said and done, the vast majority of us who’ve served in Special Operations units look back on the time in basic training as a piece of cake. But it comes with challenges, mainly, this is ...
in June 1966, for "The Basic School". Almost all of us were newly graduated and commissioned; we knew it would be an interesting and possibly difficult 21-week experience before our "real" active duty assignments. Our class was designated Bravo ("B") Company. Almost all of us became ...
During the first week of July, the command outposts Berlin and East Berlin in the 7th Marines right regimental sector came under attack during the Marines’ relief of the US 25th Infantry Division. The Marines did not concede any key terrain, and at 2200 on 27 July, the truce argued out ...
Humiliated by that setback, the Japanese navy continued to bomb Wake Island and eventually sent a much larger task force of approximately 2,000 SNLF troops to take the atoll. Nine hundred Japanese stormed ashore before dawn on December 23. After hours of desperate, close infantry combat, the ...
Bury Him: A Memoir of the Viet Nam War by Captain Doug Chamberlain Published by Love the West Publications, LLC Bury Him: A Memoir of the Viet Nam Waroffers readers a first-person account of what life was really like for Marine infantry units during this formative time of American...
the team developed and simulated over 30 new disruptive snow patterns, determining the top three patterns which were presented to the USMC Scout/Sniper School, Quantico for final selection.The final pattern used a subtle gray fractal/digital disruptive array to improve camouflage effect in identified...