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Author: Orlo K. Steele
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781780397344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. Presents a significant look at the cold weather and mountain training facility of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.
Author: Orlo K. Steele
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Foreword: The following account represents a significant look at a half century of U.S. Marine Corps effort in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. This has been and is still the location of the Corps cold weather and mountain training facility. Over time the needs and demands for Marines and units prepared to operate under these conditions waxed and waned with the real world requirements of deployed forces. This was reflected in the realities of conflicts in the Korean Peninsula, the Cold War's northern and southern flanks, and in the current Global War in Terrorism fight in Afghanistan and elsewhere. While the future is often uncertain, this firm look at the past is useful to show how previous challenges have prompted creative and innovative responses. This is as much a story of evolution as an institution.--p. iii.
Author: Orlo K. Steele
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Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781470095598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lance R. Blyth
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2024-11-05
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0806195037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMountains, Carl von Clausewitz said, introduce a “retarding element” into warfare. To fight in mountains, armies must overcome this challenge via survival strategies and mobility. But the techniques and technologies for doing so are best found in civilian skiing and mountaineering communities, a situation almost unique to mountain warfare. Ski, Climb, Fight looks at how the 10th Mountain Division of World War II met this challenge and how the U.S. military does so today. The first military history of that storied division, the book is also the first general history of U.S. mountain warfare. With a focus on strategy and doctrine, Lance R. Blyth explores how the military has adapted civilian gear and skills for surviving and moving in mountainous terrain to effectively conduct operations. He traces the long-standing but largely unexamined relationship between the civilian outdoor recreation industry and the military—a relationship that figures in almost every aspect of military operations in mountainous terrain. Intertwining the history of the World War II 10th Mountain Division and U.S. mountain warfare with the history of American skiing and mountaineering, Ski, Climb, Fight is at once an unprecedented, in-depth account of one of the most celebrated military units of World War II and a fresh look at U.S. mountain warfare from its inception eighty years ago.
Author: Wayne Hunt
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 149844881X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWayne Hunt vividly describes the deadly encounters he and other experienced as private security contractors in South-central Asia and the Middle East. These life-altering events ultimately led to the transformation of a "non-practicing" believer to a true Christian warrior and follower of Christ. These security contractors firmly believed they were warriors; warriors for their country, warriors for each other, and warriors for God. This is the message the text delivers.
Author: Orlo K. Steele
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781477477359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe following account represents a significant look at a half century of U.S. Marine Corps effort in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. This has been and is still the location of the Corps cold weather and mountain training facility. Over time the needs and demands for Marines and units prepared to operate under these conditions waxed and waned with the real world requirements of deployed forces. This was reflected in the realities of conflicts in the Korean Peninsula, the Cold War's northern and southern flanks, and in the current Global War in Terrorism fight in Afghanistan and elsewhere. While the future is often uncertain, this firm look at the past is useful to show how previous challenges have prompted creative and innovative responses. This is as much a story of evolution as an institution.
Author: Charles A. Fleming
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Hutton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-07-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1621572757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller! She wasn't a horse—she was a Marine. She might not have been much to look at—a small "Mongolian mare," they called her—but she came from racing stock, and had the blood of a champion. Much more than that, Reckless became a war hero—in fact, she became a combat Marine, earning staff sergeant's stripes before her retirement to Camp Pendleton. This once famous horse, recognized as late as 1997 by Life Magazine as one of America's greatest heroes—the greatest war horse in American history, in fact—has unfortunately now been largely forgotten. But author Robin Hutton is set to change all that. Not only has she been the force behind recognizing Reckless with a monument at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and at Camp Pendleton, but she has now recorded the full story of this four-legged war hero who hauled ammunition to embattled Marines and inspired them with her relentless, and reckless, courage.
