The mission of Force Recon is to conduct amphibious reconnaissance ... It was primarily a scout/sniper unit. In April 1944, a two-company amphibious reconnaissance battalion was formed with ...

All future RECON students must attend a Basic RECON Course ... USMC combatant diver course USMC scout sniper Navy survival, evasion, resistance and escape training (SERE) Army Airborne School ...

covered advancing infantrymen and squeezed off sniper rounds at unsuspecting bands of guerrillas. “Force Recon provided us with some tremendous capabilities,” said Col. Craig Tucker ...

SAD Maritime Branch's focus is on amphibious operations and as such tends to recruit ex SEALs and Force Recon Marines as its operators. Air Branch SAD's aviation wing. Scout Snipers are subject ...

A Marine Corps scout sniper candidate with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, adjusts his sights during a live-fire exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground ...

(Photo by LCpl. Danielle Rodrigues/Released) A female Marine officer has graduated from the Scout Sniper Unit Leaders Course and is on track to become a future recon or sniper platoon commander.

Ordering his men to engage with sniper and machine-gun fire, the Marines began picking the enemy force apart ... Related: UNSUNG HEROES: The Recon Marine Who Killed 18 Enemy Fighters In A Single ...