Tag: Marine Corps

Active Protection Systems considered too likely to cause collateral damage as well as not survive jamming, high number of targets and clutter(particularly in the urban environment). They are also judged to cause too much of an increase in the tank’s electronic signature. Additional costs and redesigns to provide power, space and cooling for APS systems greatly complicate implementation on platforms not designed for them.

The gauntlet includes events in five categories: The HITT assessment, a 300-yard power shuttle, a tactical hill climb, a virtual marksmanship test and a tactical fitness challenge. But there’s a catch: Competitors didn’t know which of 150 possible events would be graded until the day of the event.

The Marine Corps continues to dial up jungle operations, with thousands of troops rotating through places like Australia, Guatemala and Japan each year. Marines have been quick to embrace the change of scenery from the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, but one big hurdle remains: Their existing uniforms are ill-suited for unrelenting humidity, heavy rains […]

McElvenny, 33, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who now lives in the San Diego area and works as an inspirational speaker.

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. –  The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for a few more good women. And this time the campaign is a bit different. Marine recruiters are turning to high school girls’ sports teams to find candidates who may be able to meet the Corps’ rigorous physical standards, including for the front-line […]

We have our own experiences, we have advice from family and friends, then some of us have The Monster and the Field Tradecraft Course. Whatever works.

The Army and Marine Corps have stooped so low as to mislead potential recruits with a sexual encounter turned recruitment pitch

IDF forces relayed their experience in combating regional terrorism threats to the US forces.

The parade field on Stone Bay at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune hosted top ranking U.S. Special Operations Command officials, Marine Raiders and their families to witness Maj. Gen. Carl E. Mundy III assume command of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) on Tuesday morning. “I’m privileged to be able to be a […]

Special thanks to  Anthony Bunkley (SARC) and Chris Naeyaert (SARC) for their work in compiling the information in this article. It is mid-summer in the green-zone of Afghanistan’s Helmand province where coalition forces have been regularly combating the Taliban in the heart of enemy territory. The enemy fights with the utmost tenacity because the land, the […]

Police are looking for the driver of a car that hit and killed Marine Sgt. Michael Andrew Tooley earlier this month in North Carolina. Tooley, 28, was a combat engineer whose duty at the time of his death was as a drill instructor with the support battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, said […]

The Army already has such software on Android devices in some soldiers’ hands, fielded through its Nett Warrior program. (The second “t” is deliberate: It’s the last name of a World War II hero).