Nassau (LHA 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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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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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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'Ur' Third Platoon, Company B, Team 1 Back Row Cpl Foy LCpl Prrdemore Front Row Cpljestel Cpl Larkins 1stLt Kroh Second Reconnaissance Battalion Team 2 Cpl Keller LCpl Pettersen LCpl Miller LCpl Martinez SWIFT SILENT DEADLY The trademarks of Recon Our mission is to conduct ground reconnaissance and surveillance in support of the BLT We seek out and destroy the enemy through directed artillery naval gunfire and close air support A highly skilled four man recon team armed with a radio and handset can wreak havoc and send the enemy screaming back to the homeland These well camouflaged steely eyed killers can penetrate deep into enemy territory vanquish the enemy reduce his city to ashes clandestinely withdraw and still make it home in time to pop a cold one before dinner Recon is the eyes and the ears of the BLT that allow the fist to hammer the enemy out of action To the enemy we reign death and destruction from the sky Airborne sea Scuba and the ground ARS jungle warfare Commie STFB ' Team 3 Team 4 Back Row LCpl Moller Cpl Thompson LCpl Harrison LCpl Barry Cpl Brown Cpl Norman Front Row Cpl Brown Cpl DeBeau 7 7 7 . , 9 , , 1. n u . - 7 ' 7 I - , - 0 , ' 7 7 ' ' Y! I! ' ' . K1 ' D! 7 7 ' l C ' D C D C ' D , 1 1 Q , 7 7 7 I 7 QQ.. --W ---- 45531 - ,-f - - -V - W ' ' KT' ' A c Y lv 'A-Amin 'V