Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Be a monster ... and then control it!



WINTERSHIELD 2021 ... by kar.K.Lejnieks

HSC-4 Conducts Dry Rope Exercise ... by Seaman Apprentice Joshua Sapien

Open Comment Post. 21 Dec 2021

Reconnaissance Training Company: BRC 1-22 conducting nautical navigation and small boat formations in the San Diego Bay.

 

Reconnaissance Leaders Course

Reconnaissance Leaders Course: (RLC) is designed to make Reconnaissance Leaders that can thrive in the future operating environment. Regardless of rank, if you are not confident at public speaking, and briefing to a commanding General for your mission, you will loose that fear in this course or be dropped well before you are put in front of Field Grade Officers. Corporals to Captains attend this course.

Students of RLC 2-21 in their Third Phase of training after Yuma AZ. These men are in full-mission profile patrols featuring robust scenarios which forced them as students to make leadership decisions and execute contingencies. 

Each patrol required detailed planning and coordination with supporting units in order to facilitate air, fire support, insert, extract, Quick Reaction Force (QRF), resupply, medevac, and other contingency-related actions during the mission.     

Students fulfilling the Team Leader billet received valuable exposure while briefing their mission plan to a field grade officer or above.  

Rugged terrain, austere reconnaissance objectives, to include open-ocean insertion, made for a tough, realistic environment for students to execute the full breadth of their planned patrols.  

Integration with Radio Reconnaissance Platoon (3DRADBN) provided an expanded SIGINT environment where students exercised signature management, I/W, and signal collections in the accomplishment of their mission. 

Each mission featured a robust script and organic scenario where enemy signal emissions became an integral part of the Reconnaissance Team’s collections plan. 
The RLC 2-21 FINEX culminated with RLC students receiving a FRAGO, moving to link up with indigenous forces, and conducting planning at a remote mission support site.  Final mission briefing was delivered over a terrain model to MGen Hashimoto from MARFORPAC.
 
Fire support coordinator from 12th Marines facilitated the Fire Support planning for each mission.
VIPs for three confirmation briefs consisted of BGen Clearfield, LtCol Byron Owen, and MGen Hashimoto.
OK.  Don't know who this bubba is but he looks hard as woodpecker lips.  Another one of those little dudes that will rip out your heart and show it to you before you die....

Force Reconnaissance Platoon (FRP), 31st MEU, egress out of the water during an underwater navigation course at Kin Blue, Okinawa ... by Lance Cpl. Malik Lewis

31st MEU conducts Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST) during a MEU exercise (MEUEX)... by Staff Sgt. J. R. Heins

 

Monday, December 20, 2021

Marine Corps’ wish list for its next high-tech recon vehicle

 

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Southern Vanguard Exercise 2021 BRAZIL & USA

Many thanks to Humberto Felipe Kozamekinas for the links!

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Arquus Nexter and Thales deliver the 119th and last Griffon scheduled for 2021

The 119 GRIFFONs were first submitted to the verification operations of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA/SQ) at the Nexter site in Roanne before being sent to the regiments. Thus, the GME team, composed of Nexter, Arquus and Thales, is meeting its delivery target for the year 2021, in accordance with the initial order of April 2017 and the 2019-2025 military programming law

For the record, 128 GRIFFONs had been submitted for verification in 2020, and 92 in 2019, making a total of 339 GRIFFONs since the notification of the TC2 conditional tranche of the EBMR contract. In addition, all variants of the troop transport version are now qualified, namely the FELIN, sniper section (STE), 81mm mortar (MO81), refuelling (RAV), light intervention element (ELI), engineer (GEN), medium range missile (MMP) variants, in addition to the command post vehicle (EPC) version