Sorry about misspelling your name last time. Mea culpa…
The Russian sub moniker is correct and I have used it for years since it is unlikely that anyone has used that Username before.
I don’t have the Ranger Handbook but I still have the Landmark Thucydides around here somewhere in a box. Hated Clauswitz at first but came to appreciate the way it made me think.
I am actually Navy myself, I just got a invite to go to CSC with the Marines and couldn’t pass it up. Great folks one and all. I also got deployed with an Army unit as an Individual Augmentee(Army Regulation 20-1 would have been germane to my duties.) Hey, somebody has to do it.
WRT the mystique about Marines in that part of the world, you are right. A buddy of mine was in 2nd/75th BN at the time of the Panama operation and told me about the PDF trying to go head to head with them but when the Marines rolled in heavy with their sleeves rolled the opposite direction things got very quiet very quickly. I’m sure you have heard some of the local urban legends told in that AO.
I’ll be heading back to SD here next spring and looking forward to some nice weather and some good fishing.
