The Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa Japan had to be one of my favorite deployments. Learning how to operate and survive in a jungle environment is vastly different than a desert or woodland environment. There are also threats native to the jungle that you must be aware of. I remember attending a […]
Combat Hunter
Loadout Room photo of the day | Combat hunter tracks prey: 3rd Recon Marines learn techniques of predator
CAMP SCHWAB, AICHI, JAPAN Footprints and skid marks are just one of multiple ways a tracker can identify whether or not someone has recently been through an area. Marines with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, received the combat hunter course Jan. 28, a requirement for all units that will be […]
Legendary tracker returns to teach combat hunter instructors
Combat Hunter instructors attended a week-long tracking course from industry legend David Scott-Donelan and his team with The Scott-Donelan Tracking School, aboard Camp Geiger and Camp Lejeune Military Reservation, Aug. 25 through 29. The course helped cement various tracking skills and techniques to further the ability of the instructors to teach Marines skills needed to […]