enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Recondo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recondo

    Recondo is an American military acronym (from RECONnaissance commanDO [1]) for a highly specialized infantry training or a graduate of a Recondo School who leads a small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance team that patrols deep in enemy-held territory. [2]

  3. United States ship naming conventions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ship_naming...

    The vessels of the Navy shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy under direction of the President according to the following rule: Sailing-vessels of the first class shall be named after the States of the Union, those of the second class after the rivers, those of the third class after the principal cities and towns and those of the fourth ...

  4. Reconnaissance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance

    Area reconnaissance refers to the observation, and information obtained, about a specified location and the area around it; it may be terrain-oriented and/or force-oriented. Ideally, a reconnaissance platoon, or team, would use surveillance or vantage (static) points around the objective to observe, and the surrounding area.

  5. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms

    War Slang: American Fighting Words & Phrases Since the Civil War. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486797168. Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6. Jacobson, Gary (August 14, 1994). "Humor best way to remove last of 'Bohicans' resistance". The Dallas Morning News. p. 7H

  6. Ship prefix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix

    A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality.

  7. List of reconnaissance units - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reconnaissance_units

    In each Battalion have 2 Land Recon Companies or 2 Mechanical Recon Companies and 1 Special Recon Company. 701st Special Recon Battalion [5] of 1st Corps; 1st Special Recon Battalion [6] of 2nd Corps; 28th Special Recon Battalion [7] of 3rd Corps; 46th Special Recon Battalion [8] of 4th Corps; 20th Recon Battalion [9] of High Command of Capital ...

  8. United States Armed Forces - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces

    Los Angeles-class, Seawolf-class, and Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines are capable of performing sea control missions by destroying enemy submarines and surface ships, conducting surveillance and reconnaissance, performing irregular warfare, covert troop insertion, mine and anti-mine operations, and land attack missions with ...

  9. United States Marine Corps Combatant Diver Course - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps...

    Both of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force reconnaissance assets, FMF Recon and MarDiv Recon, widely use combatant diving. During this eight-week course, trainees are introduced to open and closed-circuit diving (using the Dräger LAR-V rebreather), diving physics and medical aid. Most of the training in combatant diving is done at night.