Mayor GENERAL JAMES Marrtis calls the men in First Reconnaissance Battalion “cocky, obnoxious bastards.” Recon Marines belong to a distinct military occupational specialty, and there are only about a thousand of them in the entire Marine Corps. They think of themselves, as much as this is possible within the rigid hierarchy of the military, as individualists, as the Marine Corps’ cowboys. They evolved as jacks-of-all-trades, trained to move, observe, hunt and kill in any environment—land, sea or air. They
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Mayor GENERAL JAMES Marrtis calls the men in First Reconnaissance
Battalion “cocky, obnoxious bastards.” Recon Marines belong to a distinct
military occupational specialty, and there are only about a thousand of
them in the entire Marine Corps. They think of themselves, as much as this
is possible within the rigid hierarchy of the military, as individualists, as
the Marine Corps’ cowboys. They evolved as jacks-of-all-trades, trained to
move, observe, hunt and kill in any environment—land, sea or air. They
are its special forces.