THE CASE FOR A BETTER ENLISTED INFANTRY MARINE: train them for a year before they report to operational units

by | Mar 6, 2018 | Infantry, Marine Corps Gazette, US Marine Corps

USMC Lance Cpl Antonio Marin, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, India Company, moves to the side a hill to deploy an unmanned Dragonrider drone in a hostile mountain town in Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, Calif. Oct 23, 2016. (United States Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl Samuel Brusseau.)

Major Chad Buckel, USMC has written a series of six articles for the Marine Corps Gazette that look at the infantry pipeline, the structure of the squad and battalions and how we fight combine arms fights.

In this show we a look at the first article in the series entitled “Infantry Entry-Level Training” which details Major Buckel’s argument for revamping and extending entry level training for Infantry Marines to almost a year.

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John Bolton on North Korean talks: “A sucker is born every minute…” || Grant Newsham agrees with John Bolton

by | Mar 6, 2018 | Current Events, Korea, North Korea, Pacific Rim Security

(L) Ambassador John Bolton
(R) Grant Newsham

Hope is springing, hearts are atwitter at the news that North Korea and South Korea will conduct high level talks in April aimed at the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula.  John Bolten was on Fox News this morning commenting on the latest from the Korean Peninsula and said something funny and profound “…a sucker is born every minute…”

Grant Newsham joined us later and said in effect that the discovery of the USS Lexington is a more interesting news development than the news from the Koreas — entirely predictable, seeking to drive a wedge between the US and South Korea.

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