Say hello to the Marine Corps' newest....

[Al B. Sure!]

The fact that your team had organization, cohesion, and communication probably meant way more to your success than anything you'd find in an infantry field manual. That's something that's important in any team competition.

Well yeah simply covering each other and calling out targets, enhancing everyone's situational awareness, would greatly enhance your survivability in COD, without having to worry about proper TTP's.

[DaShi]

Congrats Alpert!

[MRT144]

Well yeah simply covering each other and calling out targets, enhancing everyone's situational awareness, would greatly enhance your survivability in COD, without having to worry about proper TTP's.

its a truism of FPS gaming: more squawking more winning.

[Dinner]

A god damned supply clerk.

[Felch]

Marine infantry officers learn significantly more stuff at IOC but at TBS, we do get a foundation for infantry tactics and a combined arms attack, patrol, movement to contact, or defense, day or night, urban or not, is a very complicated thing to plan and execute. Our orders easily run into a dozen double-sided pages of analysis, a scheme of maneuver filled with tactical and fire control measures, phase lines, rates of fire and ammo considerations, consolidation plans, a fire support plan, signal plans, and the plethora of things that fall under 'coordinating instructions'. I posted my patrol order before and that was just tip of the iceberg.

So Marines aren't into Auftragstaktik?

[Patroklos]

Tactics are for amateurs, logistics is for professionals. Welcome to the fold.

[The Mad Monk]

A god damned supply clerk.

A god damned PR flak.

[Al B. Sure!]

So Marines aren't into Auftragstaktik?

Planning and communication of intent is what allows subordinate leaders to take initiative. A lot of planning and coordination is necessary to inflict a combined arms dilemma on the enemy and deconflict blue-on-blue. I'm talking the basic framework, especially things like phase lines, target reference points, engagement criteria, etc. within which small unit leaders will operate.

A god damned supply clerk.

Supply is an entirely different MOS. I'll be a 0402. Ground supply officer is 3002.

[Alexander's Horse]

Alby can now steal the entire camp

[Docfeelgood]

FYI to docfeelgood with all his combat comments. There are no open billets within 150 miles of my geographic area for infantry officers. The only available combat MOS' were engineer, artillery, and ground intel (the last of which I am not eligible for due to my clearance level).

Waste of a good man
Engineers build bridges and change flashlight batteries.
Intel is fur pussies!

Tell em you changed yur mind and want Artillery

Yull be a killer from afar raining down steal death!!!!

[onodera]

If USMC are like Russian paratroopers, then artillery are their mortal enemies.

[Hauldren Collider]

If USMC are like Russian paratroopers, then artillery are their mortal enemies.

Sounds about right. The USMC is Army Wannabe at this point. Except they don't have enough heavy weapons, too focused on infantry.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Doesn't matter, they get hovercraft, which are far cooler than big guns.

Wait, crap, that's Navy, Marines just ride along. That seems wrong somehow. Get on that, Alby.

Congrats!

[Lonestar]

At what point will the Marines just outsource the logistics to UPS?

They did that, but then people *****ed that Cheney was making money off of it.

[Aeson]

I am now hopeful someday Al B can become the real life incarnation of Milo Minderbinder...