
By Oscar E. Gilbert
In America’s longest continuous clash, armored Marines turned entangled in additional guerilla battle, this time amid the broiling deserts, historical towns, and wealthy farmlands of Iraq, and within the excessive, bleak wastes of Afghanistan. It was once a well-recognized form of struggle opposed to a fanatical foe who brutalized civilians, planted refined roadside bombs, and seized keep watch over of whole towns. it's been a maddening struggle of clearing roads, escorting convoys, never-ending sweep operations to find and smash rebel strongholds, maintaining balloting websites at no cost elections, and recapturing and rebuilding city facilities. It’s been a warfare within which the tanks time and again supplied the outnumbered infantry with detailed and decisive firepower. The tankers even additional a brand new trick to their repertoire—long-range surveillance.
Our fights opposed to Iraq in 1991 and within the post-9/11 years have noticeable additional wars that demanded that specific blend of braveness, tenacity, professionalism, and flexibility that makes a Marine no greater good friend, and no worse enemy. This publication absolutely describes how our Marine Corps tankers have risen to the occasion.
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