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The Marine Corps has settled the debate over the size of a rifle squad
The Marines are adding a precision fires specialist to rifle squads based on lessons learned in Ukraine about the use of ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN2d
Back to 13-Marine squads and a new company for infantry battalions
The 13-Marine squad is back, and the Corps is creating a new company within the infantry battalion to meet its modern ...
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Top Marine Says Service Has Finally Settled on 13-Grunt Rifle Squads
The commandant said that the changes were informed by bottom-up feedback from Marines in the fleet, "empowered by our ...
Army Times2d
Back to 13-Marine squads and a new company for infantry battalions
The 13-Marine squad is back ... all with automatic rifles, according “Infantry Building Blocks,” published in a 2018 issue of Military Review. The same article described China’s dismounted ...
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‘Nothing will be safe’ from Army’s kit overhaul
“In fact, we've been focusing our efforts on the individual soldier for so long we've burdened them with redundant ...
Army Times on MSN10d
This soldier gave his last full measure of devotion on a hill in Korea
When his company was ordered to take a hill during the Korean War's Operation Ripper, Sfc. Nelson Brittin led the way.
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This Philippine Scout fired his rifle with one hand to save his squad
Disembarking at Semut from the gunboat Pampanga, the squad ... in the Army. He was discharged in June 1912, and appointed a deputy sheriff of Basilon by the commander of the 28th Infantry Regiment ...