United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance

Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and the Saipan. Every campaign which the United States began from 1942 through 1945 implemented the use of the navajo code talkers. Without these key battles the War in the Pacific would undoubtedly have been lost, and therefore would have crippled the Allies fight against the nation of Japan. The training for the Code Talkers was fairly quick, only lasting about eight weeks, after The Commanding General of the United States claimed that the Navajos language would be…

Road of 10,000 Pains by Otto J. Lehrack demonstrates what it means to be an American soldier and fight for our country. In the beginning months of 1967, the military forces started a new tactic that was called “Search and Destroy” (Vietnam in HD.) This new tactic was going to be to be known for winning the war by body count and not land taken. Chapter 16 of Otto J. Lehrack’s book gives information on some of the men that served and survived the battle. Within the chapter it gives detailed…

“Earn your trident everyday” (21) means it is harder to stay a SEAL than it is to become one, says Marcus Luttrell in the novel Service A Navy Seal at War. He said this so the reader knows that the SEALs work harder everyday to prove themselves. The SEALs are the most elite personnel the U.S. has to offer, this can be shown in the acronym SEAL which stands for SEa, Air, and Land, all the places in which they fight. They are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect their way of life.…

•Salvage of Hue• Domonick.Christoff •Chapter 1• South Vietnam, Hue Mar.3.1968 The time was 1:43 P.M. The day was nice and Sunny. The Radiant Sun and the Bleached Clouds were in the sky down below There is verdant Grass with Trees and people fighting. You could hear bombs ringing and the sound of soldiers Unpleasant Screams and the soaring…

Chief Petty Officer Godair is strongly recommended for the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal Award for outstanding meritorious service as Weapons Department G-3 Production Chief Petty Officer and Ship Zone Manger onboard USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) from Dec 2012 to Jan 2018. Specific accomplishments include: Successfully led 107 personnel through the Aviation Ordnance Readiness Review (AORR), Shipboard Explosive Safety Inspection (SESI), and Mine Readiness Inspection (MRI) with zero…

their units and we at the battalion must balance the commander’s desire for more with the limitations of the FY budget. COA 1 (Flat Approach) Reducing the total number of AFTPs evenly across of the force. If we reduced all rated and nonrated crew members evenly across the force to get to the 475,000 mark. We would need to reduce AFTP from 30 to 19 AFTP. PROS- all rated and nonrated crew member would be treated the same. CONS- this approach is not waited in respect to individual…

during WWII. The Army has always fought great battles against its enemy. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were tests of our nation’s might. To this day, our nation has the strongest forces ever. I believe it is because of our special operations forces; the Navy Seals, the Delta Forces, the Green Berets (special forces), Civil Affairs, and the only special operations aviation in the military; the 160th Special…

Rosenthal saw out of his peripheral, six marines begin to raise the flag. It was then that Joseph Rosenthal shot one of the most famous photographs in American history. Rushed, he lifted up his camera and began snapping photographs of the action. Since the photograph was taken under such hasty and chaotic conditions, Rosenthal was afraid he did not have a successful photograph to send back to Associated Press, so he posed a photograph of a group of sixteen marines and…

the 54th and 317th received orders to deploy to Southwest Asia to take part in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm as part of Task Force 1-41 (R. Brewer, 1NOV10). Task Force 1-41 was the first coalition force to breach the Saudi Arabian border on the 15th of February, and conduct ground combat operations in Iraq. During the entire ground campaign Task Force 1-41 including Company D, 9th Engineer Battalion and Company D, 317th Engineer Battalion, travelled over 200 Kilometers in 72 hours…

Jrotc should matter to cadets because it’s a class motivate young people to become a better citizen. Becoming a better citizen is something you should or want to look forward too. In Jrotc you learn a lot you learn how to become a good leader and becoming a better person and a lot of other stuff. Cadets should matter about Jrotc because it not only helps you with school it helps you with real life situations.` JROTC has made impacts on student’s and now they are succeeding. Jrotc helped me…