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None of us were in Haditha, None of us have done 3 tours in Iraq The News Media, presents a biased picture from the reality of being on the ground, The investigation has been proceeding for the past couple of months, long before the mainstream media has found out, If you are just speculating...

The Portland Rose festival is a great time, definately bring your dress uniforms, one of radio stations put on a Meet the Fleet Ball, and women are lined up out side in ball gowns just waiting to get, definately good times

Seriously, the Modular approach is best, because throughout a deployment your missions are going to change, you want to be able to change your load / lighten your load, because especially with the ballistics plates and magazines with ammo loaded your LBV gets heavy and alot of the gear on your...

Quote " Unlike the active army it isnt uncommon for soldiers to remain as E4's for their entire career, as some soldiers dont want to be Sgt's." The Marine Forces Reserve like the Fleet Marine Forces have service limitations Corporal (E-4) eight years and Sergeants (E-5) twelve years, 

The Fire, Observe and Update mode is in addition to Fire and Forget mode, while during the Fire, Observe and Update Mode a physical Fiber Optic line links the Missile to Spike launcher, I am Correct?  And this feature is only on the Extended Range Missiles (>2.5km).  For a medium range AT...

Mortor Guy "Like the Javelin, it can be used in a fire and forget mode, but unlike the Javelin, it also has the option of a Fire, Observe and Update mode which allows more accurate targeting or even re-targeting after launch." What is Fire, Observe, and Update mode? And how does it allow for...

A CF member in the US military may be considered as prior-service, I would assume a similar qualification would be given to any US member for the CF, so they would not be a Direct-entry,,, my concern is with anyone with no military experience being allowed to directly enter the SF training...

A direct entry into Special Forces is not a good idea, an 18 year old right out of high school does not have the physical or mental endurance to go through that level of training,,, and you are correct the US does allow for direct entry in SEALS, Force Recon, but the failure rate for these guys...

pbi, "The USMCR is quite different from the USARNG/USAR. IIRC, all of its members are former Active Duty Marines: there are no "off the street" USMCR (unless things have changed since I attended Quantico 97/98). " The current form of the USMCR is not composed of only prior service Active Duty...

I don't think I added to the confusion at all, I'm not confused, and I can only comment on the equivalent in the Marine Corps;   "But what about a Section/Squad Commander - in the US Army a Staff Sergeant (E6), in the British Army, a Corporal (E4):"   A squad being a sub-unit of a platoon...

1.   When comparing ranks in general between any military, a great start is to find out at what rank fills what billet? 2.   The responsibilies that billet has? Comparing Ranks only in Name only is futile, example: A Chief Warrant Officer who fills a billet of Regimental Sergeant Major of a...

Check it out, http://sill-www.army.mil/USMC/LW155/

After the age of 18 the United States no will longer recognize dual-citizenship and if you serve in any foreign military you will loose your US citizenship, though Canada will recognize your dual-citizenship,,, both of my brothers serve in the CF and they are both dual-citizens, and they have...

The purpose of a Muzzle break is not to minimize (counteract) recoil, because the amount of Force acted on the Gun during expansion of gases onto the projectie while inside the guntube (closed system), is negliable to the amount of Force acted onto the gun during the moment when the projectile...

I thought the movie was really good, (I read the book a couple years ago), I liked that Jarhead wasn't a traditional war movie plot, I liked how it did depict a different aspect of the Corps, but mainly it shows that not every moment of war is actually intense combat and the effects of non-war...

"Yes but, the CF rotates the brigades through UN tours and the SVC BN sends their troops with each, plus there is an NSE and NCE that draws from support trades. it's easier just to task 30 guys from a combat arms unit and medics   on a 6 month rotation."   Dazzle How often does the entire...

I tried to make this point in another post, but essentially the same capabilities that the "DART" has, should exist within each of the three Brigades (PPCLI, RCR, Vandoos),,, put each of the Brigade Combat Service Support Element into a Readiness - Rotation (DART),   Dual hat the CSS, because...

Interesting paper; http://www.navyleague.ca/eng/ma/papers/Canadian_Amphibious_Capabilities%20_PHaydon.pdf

Once you have a sealift capability, design your deployment with your resources,  When we deployed to A-stan in 2001, we used our amphibs for ship shore to Pasni, Pakistan and used inter-theatre air transport to reach kandahar province, our retro-grade from theatre was using theatre air transport...

Among the proposals: - A "riverine" component that will take over operations of a now-disbanded Marine company. - A force trained to overcome opposition on tricky ship boardings - currently the role of the over-tasked SEALs. - Teams who accompany the boarding force to quickly gather...