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United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War
Author: Leo J. Daugherty III
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-03-19
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1476650136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon's selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on actions with the South Vietnamese ARVN highlights important lessons for today's Special Forces community, illustrating the inter-service cooperation of Recon operations. Firsthand accounts of Marines who served are included, along with photographs, maps and appendices.
Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps
Author: Leo J. Daugherty III
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1476618038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of “small wars,” starting in the Philippines in 1899, and ending in the islands of the southwest Pacific in 1945. Through this experience, the Marines perfected the prosecution of such wars in its famed Small Wars Manual, written for Marine Corps schools in the late 1930s. The present volume is a chronological examination of the various Marine expeditions in the Pacific, West Indies and Central America from 1899 through 1945, and of the lessons learned.
SOG, MACV Studies and Observations Group
Green Ghosts
Author: W. Floyd
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0595329195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Personal accounts of reconnaissance in the DMZ by the Marines and corpsmen who daily bet their lives in the most dangerous combat environment in Vietnam.
U.S. Marines in Vietnam
Inside Force Recon
Author: Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0811765695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy’s backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and you-are-there stories of Force Recon in action to create the definitive account of Recon Marines.
Always Faithful, Always Forward
Author: Dick Couch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0425268608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Established in 1986, the U.S. Special Operations Command was set up to bring the special operational disciplines of all branches of the military under a single, unified command to act on missions involving unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, foreign internal defense, and direct action... The Marine Special Operations Command ("MARSOC") is the newest component of the military's shift toward a fully integrated Special Operations Command structure. At first, the Marines were strongly against any Marines serving under anyone other than another Marine. Then 9/11 happened. In the years following, Marine forces found themselves growing more agreeable to inter-branch operational command, finally forming the Marine Special Operations Command in 2006. Always Faithful, Always Forward follows the journey of a class of Marine candidates from their recruitment, through assessment and selection, to their qualification as Marines Special Operators. Retired Navy Captain Dick Couch has been given unprecedented access to this new command and to the individual Marines of this exceptional special-operations unit, allowing him to chronicle the history and development of the Marine Special Operations Command and how they find, recruit, and train their special operators.
Stingray
Author: Bruce Norton
Publisher: Quadrant Books®
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1937868052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most influential strategies of the Vietnam War, the Stingray Patrol comprised seven to ten marines in small teams, inserted by chopper deep in enemy territory. Surrounded on all sides by North Vietnamese Army troops and Viet Cong guerillas, these small, high-effective teams brought death and destruction to the enemy without ever going head-to-head in a gunfight with them. Like todays Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Marine Force Recon units that operate behind enemy lines, these Stingray Patrols helped target the enemy for artillery and air strikes . . . with devastating accuracy and effect. Force Recon Marine and team leader Bruce "Doc" Norton participated in many Stingray missions and he takes the reader behind enemy lines, telling the full story of Stingrays origins and operations. STINGRAY is the definitive history of these units and missions, available now for the first time in eBook format.
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