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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 --- 78 days ago http://www.mypointradio.net/blogs/index.php/2008/05/03/god-made-marines-for-one-
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With regard to the training aspect, I subscribe to the following:
1) Simple is what killing is, whether with a spear or a JDAM. The act itself is simple. We have been stacking them up like cordwood over here – no problem.
2) The training we did prior to coming over was simple - hardness, simple drills to get into firing position, simple escalation of force parameters. Nothing higher than that. Now at Division level and above, the planning, ROE, complexity of synchronization, and bringing in all aspects of foreign policy gets complex - but the killing time remains simple, and we do everything we can to keep it that way. We don’t brief the trigger pullers on all the complexities - we keep them at that cutting edge.
3) I know that EVERY Marine knows how to do sight alignment and sight picture (clear tip of the front sight post in a fuzzy “bullseye”). That is why we are the world’s best all-purpose marksmen. Weapons handling remains simple (”never be more than three feet from your weapon”; “keep that weapon functionally clean”; “complacency kills” - these are all sayings that ALL Marines over here know by heart). I see Marines all the time working with that weapon; it is great to see. In firefights, I truly cannot tell the difference between a Marine who has been in 50 fights or 5 - and I have looked while it is happening. They keep it simple.
4) Fitness over here is simple. Rear area guys are still on the weight schedule (a ... |
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