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Why Do the Navy’s Frogmen Fight on Land?

The Art of Manliness

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The Marine Corps and Commandos in World War Two

The marine corps has no interest in fielding commandos, but after world are one, they've proven that they can be as capable as the us. Army s o. The navy sort of on this idea in the navy sike, well, we really could use a unit that could go out there into the pacific and stretch the japanese out across the pacific. So that's essentially what happens. You know, the navy kind of forces the marine corps hand. And then on their first raid, evans carlson,. leads this pretty dramatic raid, you know, some two thousand miles into the northern pacific, into the gilbert islands, at macon island

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