Shaffer
06-11-03, 11:05 AM
An eerie dust hangs in the air along the dark corridors of the shoothouse at Warrior Base, South Korea.
Ahead, inside small dark rooms along the corridor, armed and unarmed enemies lie in wait for the Marines who are on a mission to overtake them — ideally without getting shot.
It’s an exercise in urban warfare: “How to methodically — with limited casualties — secure a building,” explained Lt. Col. Dave Berger, battalion commander for the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines. “It’s less a focus on blasting in.”
The training is called Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain, or MOUT, and is a response to the changing face of war, Berger said.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=15991
Ahead, inside small dark rooms along the corridor, armed and unarmed enemies lie in wait for the Marines who are on a mission to overtake them — ideally without getting shot.
It’s an exercise in urban warfare: “How to methodically — with limited casualties — secure a building,” explained Lt. Col. Dave Berger, battalion commander for the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines. “It’s less a focus on blasting in.”
The training is called Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain, or MOUT, and is a response to the changing face of war, Berger said.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=15991