BATTLEFIELD STUDY: 3/5 in Sangin, Afghanistan, January 16-18 2011 — Capt Joe Patterson, USMC
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THE CASE FOR A BETTER ENLISTED INFANTRY MARINE: A new enlisted career path to the 0365 MOS — Why the 15-Marine Rifle Squad is sound
The Infantry Squad Leader
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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 the second of three shows (the first is here), we’ll discuss the career path that creates a higher quality infantry Marine and why the Marine Rifle Squad should consist of fifteen Marines.
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The F18 Explainer — What happened in Key West: LtCol Curt Knowles, USMC (ret)
F/A-18F Crash Wreckage
Key West, Florida
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Great USMC movie audio and Great Moments with American LIARS
Jack Nicholson as Col Jepson, USMC in the movie “A Few Good Men”
President Bill Clinton
From the Press Conference during which he stated “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski. I never told anyone to lie, never. And I need to get to work for the American people.”
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SEA DRAGON 2025 — the Marine Corps prepares the Marine Rifle Squad for the future: Capt Joe Patterson, USMC
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Captain Joe Patterson, USMC
Commanding Officer, K/3/5
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Marine Corps Captain Joe Patterson commanded Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment as they spearheaded the operational testing phase of the Marine Corps’ SEA DRAGON 2025 initiative, an initiative designed to evolve the Marine Rifle Squad, Platoon, Company and Battalion towards into force designed to excel on future battlefields.
We’ll talk about the technology that Marines experimented with during SEA DRAGON 2025, the different squad structures that were used and the impact of suppressed weapons on the small unit leaders’ ability to control a unit in contact with the enemy… and lots more.
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