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mountain warfare December 3, 2018

Loadout Room photo of the day | “America’s Battalion” attend training at MCMWTC

Courtesy of Defense Video Imagery Distribution System Marines from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, hike to a potential climbing route for their night climb during Mountain Training Exercise 4-17 aboard Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., August 1, 2017. Marines with 2/8, based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., conducted the … [Read more…]

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SAS Old School: The Oman mission that saved the Special Air Service

"The Special Air Service is superfluous. It doesn’t belong to our Cold War army." This was your conventional post-war British military thinking. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the ‘anomaly’ of the SAS had been corrected and the Regiment disbanded. It had taken a communist insurgency in Malaya (1950-1960) to resurrect it. But its position remained precarious. The unit … [Read more…]

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Watch: Mountain warfare - ‘Kurdish’ PKK assaults a Turkish army outpost

The PKK is not affiliated with the Kurdistan Regional Government or the Peshmerga. The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê‎) is a far left-wing guerilla organization that operates in the mountainous border regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The combat between the PKK and Turkish army within this video demonstrates one of many … [Read more…]

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Hunting the mafia in Italy

Southern Italy’s Regions have a troubled history: especially after the Unity of 1861, reached under the rule of the House of Savoy . The Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, Campania and Sicily, (as well as Sardinia) populations has always been very attached to their rural traditions. Religion, along with the family and the land were the pivot around which turned the social life of … [Read more…]

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SEALs conduct mountain warfare training in the Alps

"In di Berg am I gern..." (I like to be in the mountains) This is not only a refrain of an Austrian folk song, it is also reflective of the commitment of all mountaineers who passionately deal with rock and ice. Some of them come from the United States and are professionally involved in Germany. We met the Navy SEALs, stationed in Germany Naval Special Warfare Unit 2, for a … [Read more…]

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SEAL platoon training at Slovenia’s Mountain Warfare School

Escaping early, in 1991, from what would later become the geopolitical tar pits of Yugoslavia, Slovenia is often referred to as the "green piece of Europe" given its abundant trees, sloping hills and prairies, and picturesque Mediterranean beaches. Situated in Central Europe, across the Adriatic from Italy, and inhabited by around two million mostly Catholic Slovenes, the … [Read more…]

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