Top Marine Wants Troops to Retrain on Camouflage for Next Fight
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller. Cliff Owen/AP
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller. Cliff Owen/AP
Military.com | Aug 09, 2016 | by Hope Hodge Seck
During a recent field exercise, a Marine headquarters group set up an expeditionary operations center and facilities, then hung camouflage netting over every building and structure -- a time-honored Marine Corps practice that has fallen out of popularity during recent wars, in which the enemy did not possess aircraft.
Unit leaders tested the effectiveness of the disguise by pulling up Google Maps for an overhead view of their location, only to discover that concertina wire strung around more sensitive sites reflected sunlight and effectively circled key targets for a notional enemy.
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