![]() Standing in front of a door and beating it with a sledgehammer for 10 minutes is unacceptable.” “If one method of breaching is not working, then the breacher must quickly transition to a different type. The Marines also asserted that speed is the most significant factor in breaching a building. “Marines have died because they followed their own breach,” said the report. “An important principle in breaching that was learned is that the Marine making entry is never the breacher … The breacher should always fall in the back of the stack and never go in first. “Marines have been left behind in houses because the momentum was lost.”īreaching tactics also were adapted to the environment, the squad members explained. “Momentum must not be lost,” warned the Marine snipers. But it also makes it tough for a squad to pull out of the building. Starting with the top floors may surprise the enemy and allow a Marine squad to cut off escape routes more easily than going in through the ground floor. “Traditionally, the top-down assault is taught as being the most ideal method for clearing a structure … Realistically, this may not be the best option for the infantry squad,” the report said. These Marines quickly discovered that tactics that they had learned before going to Iraq-such as house clearing, breaching and fire support-required considerable overhaul. The report, written by a sergeant, a corporal and two lance corporals, offers, in bits and pieces, a glimpse of the insurgency that Marines encountered in Fallujah in November 2004, when they fought Operation Phantom Fury. The Marines belong to a scout-sniper platoon from the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. “The most effective training in this environment is for the squad leader to sit down with his squad and talk,” wrote a group of Marines in a report titled “Lessons Learned: Infantry Squad Tactics in Military Operations in Urban Terrain During Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq.” Behind him a vast trail of devastation marks the mission's progress, as his fellow Phantom crews continue to wreak havoc with their heavy ordnance, the target area exploding in a series of mighty detonations.Ĭomes with a Certificate of Authenticity.Marines fighting in Iraq have concluded that, in order to defeat insurgents, the urban tactics learned in the United States require a substantial makeover. Robert Taylor's powerful "PHANTOM FURY" shows Steve Ritchie, first into action, flying his lead F-4D Phantom through a hail of deadly enemy flak as he exits the target area after a typical FAST FAC mission on enemy installations in North Vietnam, 1972. Flying with the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, the illustrious 'Triple Nickel', Ritchie would, in the space of a few weeks during Operation Linebacker in the summer of 1972 become a legend - the ONLY USAF fighter pilot Ace of the Vietnam War. And one of those just itching to take it into combat was a young, then Captain, Steve Ritchie. The Air Force pilots just couldn't wait to get their hands on it. So impressed were the Air Force that they bought it too, and three years later, in 1964, the USAF received their Phantoms. Whether it was carrier-based attack with the Navy, land-based bombing missions with the Marines, air combat sorties, or Forward Air Control missions, it was unbeatable. And when it saw combat for the first time, in Vietnam in 1961, it was the lucky Navy and Marine Corps pilots who were the first to fly it. The F-4 Phantom was the benchmark against which every fighter in the world came to be judged it was simply the best. ![]() It may have been the size of many World War II bombers but it could outperform anything that crossed its path it was quicker, could turn faster, was better equipped with electronics, carried more ordnance than anything comparable, and it had an unbelievable rate of climb. The biggest, fastest, most powerful fighter of its day, the McDonnell Phantom was an awesome war machine that came to dominate aerial combat for over two decades. Be one of the first to own this remarkable print! All editions of this new release are selling very quickly and will likely sell out at the publisher soon. Not since Robert Taylor's "PHANTOM STRIKE" (which is long sold out and sells for upwards to $2500.00 on the secondary market) has there been such an amazing print of the F-4 Phantom. ![]()
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