[shezza]

The things these guys come up with is amazing. What a cool job, yet one with a "higher calling," too...to protect and to serve the good guys in their fight against the bad guys. I'd love to be a fly on the wall during a brainstorming session one day (or is that a fly? hmmmmm).

[Fee]

Bump

[Minuteman23]

Interesting article. Thanks.

[Leisler]

""We have seen casualty rates as high as 75 percent per day per unit, like in Mogadishu [Somalia]," Ford said. "That is outrageously too high. The average is 30 percent per day per unit. Even that is too much. We want our guys combat-effective and to come home alive. Our training, for now, aims to get that number down to 12 to 15 percent."

And the reason is? Can you say Leftist? Political correctness? In WWII in Europe, Our Army would come out of the woodline and be shot at by Germans on the edge of the villages. So, we would blow ALL the building up on the edge of the villages. The Germans then used to let the Army enter the villages and then open fire. So, we would fire THROUGH the buildings and move that way without going into the streets. Furthermore, if things were really tough, then the location would get the Monte Casino treatment, i.e, weeks of arty and aircraft bombing, and then, moving on. Ditto church towers, bell towers, etc.

[i_dont_chat]

I am going to try this again.

Check out the Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory's logo.

Can anyone determine which city is represented here? And what's with the dragon? Comments, please.

MCWL Official Web Page

[gcruse]

 bricks and stones equipped with listening and
sensing devices can be planted in enemy territory

Hmm.   New adage:

Stick and stones may break my bones,
And call in air strikes, and give away my location, and...