Sublime

The inaugural parade of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group Royal Marines took place on a very cold, bright morning, 13 December 2010, at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth. The name 30 Commando was chosen in tribute to the forgotten men of Fleming’s 30 Commando/30 Assault Unit, and the secretary of the 30AU old comrades’ association, Mrs Diann

Dick Hewitt

Jan Christiaan Smuts,

In World War II, the Army post (elevated to undersecretary) would be held by Judge Robert Patterson, who proved to be a production wizard and presided over an unprecedented procurement program virtually without a taint of scandal or cost overrun.

But it was the Army’s personnel system that required the greatest overhaul. In August 1940, Congress authorized the War Department to call up the nation’s 300,000 national guardsmen and reservists for twelve months of federal service. On September 16, the first peacetime draft in American history became law. Sixteen million men between the ages of

6 – The attack, or gunship, version of the two-pilot Little Bird helicopter used exclusively by 1st Battalion of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

Chapter 2 The Sidelining of the Army’s Amphibious Soldier-Scouts and the Call-up of the Navy’s Second-String Sailors

Ike put the matter in personal terms. “For forty years I was in the Army, and I did one thing: study how you can get an infantry platoon out of battle. The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”19

Wavell had a gift for picking good people. One was Major Ralph Bagnold, an officer in the Royal Signals, one of a select band who knew and respected the great desert that lay behind the cultivated coasts of North Africa. Bagnold had been exploring the Sahara since 1926. He had improved the sun compass for desert navigation, discovered the best way