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05-28-2009, 10:15 PM
zuludelta
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So Gung-Ho and Leatherneck are Recon Marines. Does anyone know many details about Marine Recon School? I know they go through Airborne and Scuba, and sometimes Ranger School... but the Marine Recon School itself is like 10 weeks. Does anyone know any details on that?
Some notes on Marine Reconnaissance/Force Recon/MAGTF Recon:
- There's a difference between "Reconnaissance Man," "Force Recon," and "MAGTF Recon"... it's akin to the difference between being "Ranger-qualified" and being a "Ranger" in the army. Reconnaissance Marines are riflemen who've graduated from the Basic Reconnaissance Course, the same way that Ranger-qualified infantrymen in the Army are graduates of the Ranger School but aren't necessarily "Rangers" in that they don't maintain their proficency and serve with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Force Reconnaissance, however, entails a much more comprehensive training regimen than just graduation from the Basic Reconnaissance Course. Force Recon Marines are not only graduates of the BRC, but a good number of them are also fully jump-qualified and many are graduates of the Marine Combat Diver Course (equivalent to the Army's Special Forces Underwater Combat Diver Course). Many also go on to cross-train in the Army's Ranger School and the Army's Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course. They also have their own independent units called Force Reconnaissance Companies. MAGTF Recon, on the other hand, refers to those Reconnaissance Men assigned to a specific MAGTF unit.
In many books and comics, writers often seem to think that the three are equivalent.
As far as I know though, the Force Reconnaissance companies have been deactivated and the members have been re-assigned to the new MARSOC battalions that are under USSOCOM or distributed to the various MAGTF Recon units. I think MARSOC is still undergoing teething problems though... I remember reading some articles a few months back about USSOCOM commanders not being exactly sure what to do with their MSOBs (Marine Special Operations Battalions... also, Mean Sons-of-Bitches
) that doesn't simply make them a redundant equivalent to the SEAL Teams.
In terms of how I've re-imagined GI Joe, I've got Gung-Ho as a Force Recon/MSOB Marine, while Leatherneck is a Marine Infantry unit leader who graduated from the Basic Recon Course, jsut to distinguish the two instead of making them virtual clones of each other.
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