laststandonzombieisland

The US Marines have always been innovators. The small unit tactics, raids and theory expounded by the Banana Wars between the World Wars helped shaped modern combat. They produced and honed modern amphibious warfare then morphed it into todays over the horizon rotary winged expeditionary warfare. Current tasking has the Marines sent to fight a Global War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq against the insurgents every bit as dedicated and dangerous as that of Sandino and Giap. The more modern nature of fighting in a 21st century urban environment has led to training opportunities.

Marines are being schooled to be hunters by hunters. They are being taught the same advanced fieldcraft and observation tactics as snipers and recon teams but adapted through input from police, hunters, and Iraq-experienced marines to move about the modern battlefield with the eye of a hunter. Trained to notice the out of place, based on a simple formula- B+A= D. This is explained as taking the Baseline environment, adding an Anomaly you observe, and then making a Decision based on empirical data. This program is referred to as Combat Hunter.

The Devil dogs have done it again