Nassau (LHA 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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2d Platoon, Company B, 2d Combat Engineer Battalion Combat Engineers are tasked with a broad and difficult mission: to provide the BLT with the mobility, counter-mobility, survivability and general engineering skills. An engineer squad is capable of destroying enemy obstacles and breaching minefields to give the tactical commander the desired rates of advance. Engineers can construct obstacles and emplace minefields to channelize the enemy. Engineers are tasked with building bunkers and hardening areas so the BLT can survive the enemy onslaught unscathed. General engineering skills include: water production, electrical power production and carpentry. The hardest part of our mission is communicating with the infantry. The grunt talk , as we fondly call it, of BLT 2f6 changes with geographic location. The following are examples of the mindless dribble that the engineers have had to try to work with. The list could go on, but as they would probably take too long to read it, here are a few: ITALY Individual units will bivouac in their training areas CFind a spot clear of cow dip and sleepy FRANCE Engineers are going to De Garrigues for training CGO to De Garrigues, but end up at Brignoles . . . for unscheduled trainingj SPAIN Provide COC security CGO up into the mountains, protect us against goat attacks . . . Back Row: Cpl Reed, Cpl Eldridge, LCpl Reed, Cpl Moran, LCpl Goodson, 3rd Row: 1stLt Eller, Sgt Vanpelt, Sgt Tucker, LCpljohns, Cpl Wickline, LCpl Kersey, LCpl Tyler, LCpl Waters, LCpl Derr, LCpl Lee, LCpl McKisic, LCpl Miller, LCpl Mallozzi, LCpl Steinmetz, LCpl johnson, SSgt Roberts 2nd Row: Sgt Gipson, LCpl Sherwood, HM3 Rushing, LCpl Wurtsbaugh, LCpl Beachy, LCpl Flinchbaugh, LCpl Kemp Front Row: Sgt Dillon, Cpl Schneider then we'll displace and leave youj MOROCCO Engineers, order materials and build a bunker CFind whatever you can to build a bunker . . . Take your Tonka Toy dozer . . . and dig some crappersj l V Q , f H, 44d