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CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN A U.S. Marine assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division (Forward), fixes his night vision goggles after jumping out of a C-130 over Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan, Oct. 5. The operation was designed to focus on military parachuting, reconnaissance patrolling and maintenance of parachute insert proficiency. The unit is deployed […]
CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN U.S. Marines assigned to Force Reconnaissance, Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division (Forward), wait to conduct a High-Altitude High-Opening jump at the flightline aboard Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan, Oct. 7. The jump operation was designed to focus on military parachuting, reconnaissance patrolling and maintenance of parachute insert proficiency. The unit is […]
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, HI, UNITED STATES Marines from force reconnaissance platoon, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, shoot rounds from .45-caliber pistols during close quarter tactics shooting at the Kaneohe Bay range training facility, May 13. Capt. Brian VanHoose, the platoon commander and a native of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, said their shooting drills are practice for […]
Frequently, we get emails or tweets here at SpecialOperations.com in the realm of questions about the training and the qualification course. Many of course deal with Selection and I have to tell people that the Instructors don’t actually kill anyone during the events and one doesn’t have to be 10-feet tall to pass. But one […]
QUANTICO, VA, UNITED STATES U.S. Marines assigned to Scout Sniper School Class 3-14, conduct a hike during a field training exercise at Range 11, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., Oct. 7, 2014. The Marines of Class 3-14 conducted team stalking exercises, as well as tactical movements through temperate environments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WA, UNITED STATES Sergeant Ian Frazier, scout sniper, Charlie Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, applies camouflage paint prior to executing a high altitude high opening jump at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., April 9, 2015. Several free-fall trained reconnaissance Marines conducted a HAHO jump to begin a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol. The exercise […]
In the military we tend to use dry humor as a way of coping with the many stressors we deal with day in and day out. Hell any time you get a group of veterans together, to a casual outsider it may seem like we hate each other, but the reality is that dry humor […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCORD, WA, UNITED STATES Sergeant Ben Deweese, assistant team leader, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, makes final gear preparations prior to a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis McCord, Wash, April 9, 2015. Marines with the company operated in remote locations of the wilderness and provided surveillance of the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK, UNITED STATES An Alaska Air National Guard pararescueman, assigned to the 212th Rescue Squadron, negotiates wooded terrain while conducting mass-casualty, search and rescue training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 4, 2016. During the exercise, the rescue operators located, assessed, treated and evacuated numerous casualties while engaging and eliminating multiple attacks […]
PFULLENDORF, GERMANY PFULLENDORF, Germany – A team of multinational NATO and partner nation special operation forces demonstrate the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care while loading role-playing casualties onto a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during the culminating field training exercise of the NATO Special Operations Combat Medic Course, March 1, 2017. This inaugural class, hosted […]
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