Alligator Marines: United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion

Blogging from the military

Today, according to Travis J. Tritten, there are 2,018 military blogs from 37 countries registered on Milblogging.com, a site that tracks the military blogosphere.

How many bloggers are there from World II, from Iwo Jima, from the first wave on Iwo Jima? I think I'm it. If there are more, please let me know, i want the company.

We can learn a lot from our boys in other countries, in the service, protecting our way of life. We can learn a lot from those who have gone before. I will be passing along what the boys are doing now, how our great country supports them, and I will be passing along what we already learned. We each have a story to tell, and its best not to have learn the same thing over again. There are two types of Marines, the ones who learn from other's mistakes and then there's rest of us.

Monday, June 4, 2012

United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion

Not my Dad's unit but related--they did the tough preliminary work--brave brave men those amphib recon platoons!

United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, formerly Company, was a specialized team of Marines and Navy Corpsmen that performed clandestine preliminary pre–D-Day amphibious reconnaissance of planned beachheads and their littoral area within uncharted enemy territory for the joint-Navy/Marine force commanders of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Often accompanied by Navy Underwater Demolition Teams and the early division recon companies, these amphib recon platoons performed more reconnaissance missions (over 150) than any other single recon unit during the Pacific campaigns.[1]"

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