Posted on 06/19/2015 10:37:22 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Army has the Green Berets, while the Navy is known for the SEALs. Now, an elite branch of the U.S. Marine Corps will officially be known as Raiders.
The Marines will rename several special operations units as Marine Raiders at a ceremony Friday, resurrecting a moniker made famous by World War II units that carried out risky amphibious and guerrilla operations. The exploits of the original Marine Raiders — who pioneered tactics used by present-day special forces — were captured in books and movies including "Gung Ho!" in 1943 and "Marine Raiders" in 1944.
The name will give a unique identity to the Marines' branch of U.S. Special Operations Command, which includes special forces from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The Marines' Special Operations Command, known as MARSOC, was formed more than a decade ago as part of the global fight against terrorism. . .
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OORAH!
Sweet! Mr. Megan will be THRILLED to hear this!!!
I wonder if my son is interested in this. After sniper school. And I told him he has to beat Kyle’s record.
How I hope he will. WE need more of your son’s caliber of men.
After all, you now have a badass moniker. < > Since when have Marines needed anything other than Marine ?
pussification
Gotta find that movie. Marine raiders.
Anyone seen it?
The marines have always had an appeal, so; why the raiders? They have force recon, too. Raider sounds like DA or direct action types. The marines already do DA well. The military needs much more UW training as only one group I know of gets that. We showed our ass in Iraq to Hussein’s call for UW. The Taliban are doing the same while idiot commanders ride up and down MSR’s. The Russians lost there ass doing exactly what we are doing, and; their vehicles like our APC’s and other thin to medium armor littered the highways and roads.
FORCE RECON
Carlson’s Raiders, a Marine unit led by Evans F. Carlson won fame for a series of daring exploits in the Pacific Theater during WWII. What is less known is that he was a Communist and that “Gung Ho” (”cooperate”), a term he popularized, was originally a Chinese Communist slogan.
He was a commie, eh?
http://www.shanghai1937.com/gung-ho/
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It was introduced into American English by Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson who spent time with Communist Chinese guerrillas known as the Eighth Route Army during their fight against Japan in the early years of the Sino-Japanese War. He was impressed by their discipline and toughness, describing in memoirs how 600 men completed a 58-mile march without sleep, with not a single man dropping out. He put it down to what he called “ethical indoctrination,” arguing that soldiers elsewhere could benefit from it too.
One of our coaches&phys ed manager in high school was there in the South Pacific as a Raider.
he was a barrel chested former member of Carlson’s Raiders.. He smoked two packs a day.. And turned out some good teams over his years.
He would be proud the see the name on the uniforms of today’s and tomorrow’s Marine Corps members. And to go kick some arse for a change.
That bottom picture reminds me of the old college era joke about the marine mine detector. Except they need their hands over their ears.
I guess I will have to find out more what the difference is between this group and Force Recon. My brother recently retired from Force Recon, and those guys do dang near everything under the sun.
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