Battalion Recon

[Lil Hulk 1988]

What is the slogan of the original Battalion Recon units?

 

[DiverVan]

"Celer - Silens - Mortalis" - (Swift-Silent-Deadly)

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

That's it...

"Celer - Silens - Mortalis" - (Swift-Silent-Deadly)

And in the correct language....

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

Next question....

What year was Force and Battalion REcon integrated into a single embodiment?

 

[03USMC]

1992? Bn recon was divided and sent to the Inf Regiments as scout platoons.

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

1992? Bn recon was divided and sent to the Inf Regiments as scout platoons.

Nope, 1998....the scout/recon platoons were resurrected though....

 

[03USMC]

OOP'S.

Okay SNCO Who was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam for the defense of a hill occupied by his Recon Team.
The Callsign of this Unit was Carnival Time

Name, Rank, and Bn?

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

OOP'S.

Okay SNCO Who was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam for the defense of a hill occupied by his Recon Team.
The Callsign of this Unit was Carnival Time

Name, Rank, and Bn?

1st Bn, Gunny (Staff when on the hill), Jimmy Howard......it gets beaten into you (and it was the subject of a paper on small unit ops in Vietnam, required reading)....what hill and what year?

 

[03USMC]

Hill 488 15 June 1966.

Next?

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

Correct.....

Let me think where to go next, thinking the gulf.....the date the recon team entered Kuwait City...and what was the first building recovered?

 

[03USMC]

26 Feb 1991. United States Embassy.

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

OOORAH.

Ok, what was the insertion technique for the Recon team that entered the city?

 

[03USMC]

I'm probably gonna blow this one.
But I think they used Pink panthers, the Combat all terrian dune buggies because of the threat of triple AAA.

 

[Lil Hulk 1988]

I'm probably gonna blow this one.
But I think they used Pink panthers, the Combat all terrian dune buggies because of the threat of triple AAA.

That and the beaches had a division sitting on it, so helicast was out of the question....