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Kill 'Y luv.- Third Platoon, Company D, Second AAV BN AMTRACS, workhorse of the amphibious assault. Their mission is to land the surface elements of the landing force and their equipment in single lift from amphibious operations to inland objectives, to conduct mechanized operations and related combat support in subsequent operations ashore. The AAV7A1 is a fully tracked, aluminum armored, diesel powered amphibian. It mounts an M85 50 cal. machine gun, smoke grendade launchers and a smoke generation system. Capable of ten foot plunging surf, it can operate easily on land and sea without modification. It is our goal that every crewman learn proper maintenance, operation, navigation and employment of their AAV. This includes proper terrain driving, immediate action drills, emergency procedures and firing the 50 cal. We got saggerdances, turret watch, mass casualty drills, armor piercing chaulk, Cobra fights, volleyball, boxing, engineer vehicles, the palace, the Sete cookoff, Montpielier liberty, cheese and rice, flowergirls and not enough repair parts. Now listen up gents: 35, how about taking the laundry off the antenna, 32, how far on the hardball, Let 37 lead, My feet don't hurt . . . your feet hurt?, No brains, no headaches, It's not my pole, Do you want some cheese to go with that wine? Tractor rats: Coonass, Bobo, Rod, Chief, Lud, Frank, LZ, Surfrat, Chaz, Chill-will, Mouth, Teddy Ruxpin, Spud, Bouncy, Wally, Hawkman, Mooch and the rest of the third herd. YAYTAS. The rest of the world has swimmers, the Marine Corps has Surfers. Gen. Gray
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Second Platoon, -5 1 Battery E The Second Platoon is commanded by 1stLt William E. Wildman Noel of Newport News, VA and Platoon Sergeant, SSgt johnny L. Norward of Moody, TX. Second Platoon owns the Marine Corps' newest artillery piece, the M198 155mm towed howitzer. An extremely accurate weapon, made so even more by Section Chiefs of guns five through eight, Cpl. Jeffery P. Geringer, Sgt Bobby G. Extrom, respectively. Second Platoon is called upon time and again, to wreak havoc from the skies. Second Platoon's Fire Direction Center was led by FDO, GySgt james R. Loreman of Milton, PA and the Operations Chief, Sgt Richard C. Sgt Carter from Plater of Alpena, MI. Second Platoon left no doubt in the minds of BLT 2f6 that when a Big Bang was needed - Death and Destruction was only a radio call away. Gun 5 and Gun 6 Back Row: W. Wood, R. jefferson, M. Cover, Haltinner 2nd Row: P. Binger, M. Gerbounka, Mcallen, S. Childs, Norwood - PltSgt Front Row: Geringer, W. Smith, G. Graham, D. Legg, G. Arteaga Gun 7 and Gun 8 Back Row: T. Poitra, D. Hamilton, M. johnson, S. Hall, T. Bell, W. Noel - PltCmdr 2nd Row: T. Chandler, M. Hagen, Benavidez, B. Extrom, T. Hines Front Row: Comfort, J. Bowling, R. Blake, E. Leman, M. Hall FDC 1 and FDC 2 - Back Row: j. Baumegartner, J. Bukoski, E. Carlson, R. Stoehr 2nd Row: Connelly, C. H0gafd, Racine - OpsChief, J. Loreman - FDO, C. Felton - FDO Front Row: F. Warrington, Hozey, A- Lanceta, A. Mong A
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Second Platoon, Company D, SeC0Ud Tank BN Q As the Tank Platoon for the BLT, our mission is to provide support through firepower, mobility and shock effect. This is done through five M6OA1 RISE Passive Tanks. These fifty-six ton beasts are manned by four- man crews who are capable of inflicting more damage on the enemy in ten minutes than an infantry company can do all day. After fording up to eight feet of water, the platoon can support the infantry attack from up to 2500 meters away, or can lead the attack with bullets and shrapnel merely bouncing off. Those not paralyzed by our advance would turn and run only to be destroyed by our one shot, one kill gunnery. Five 105mm cannons, five 50 caliber machine guns and five 7.62mm maching guns blaze a trail for the rest of the BLT to follow. The training goals are: to achieve a level of gunnery and tactical proficiency unmatched by any other in the Corps and to maintain the vehicles in superior condition so that we can thunder across the battlefield and then past the BLT as they hike home after watching the tanks perform feats of tactical excellence. All this, provided 2-3 isn't stuck, 2-2 isn't broken, 2-4 isn't off listening to rock-n- roll and 2-5, . . . Oh well he just Don't rightly know. And that's a fact. C ,, , .-f,,fa-, ,-,, Lt Phoebus Back Row: LCpl Rockwell, LCpl Tucker, LCpl Sgambellone 2nd Row: SSgt Schaefer, SSgt Eul, Cpl Shelly, LCpl Hillyer, LCpl Whittington, LCpl Brock, LCpl Vetetoe, LCpl Mayer, LCpl Hammond, Sgt Czubinski, LCpl Houk, Cpl Schneifer, Sgt Brandel, LCpl Todd, Cpl Dobbs, Cpl Rose, 1stLt Pheobus Front Row: LCpl Grabowski, LCpl Cohen, Sgt Mize SSgt Schaefer
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