US Naval Institute Proceedings - November 1998

Front Cover, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume 124/11/1,149, November 1998. GGA Image ID # 1d01aa1084

On the Front Cover: For the Marine recruit, not much has changed over the years. For the Corps itself, a great deal is changing. (Photo: Infantry Assault Course, Camp Pendleton, Sergeant Jason C. Huffine, USMC)

The November 1998 issue is focused on the USMC. Articles include Bottom Line: It's Infantry, Don't Forget the Fleet, The Price of 'Marine Green' Still Is High, What Was Nimitz Thinking? Until Death Do Us Part? and more.

Table of Contents

Special Marine Corps Focus - USMC Essay Contest Winnerss

• The Writing on the Wall
  By Captain Jason L Morris, USMC
  How ready are the Marines to take on gases and germs?
• Bottom Line: It's Infantry
  By Captain Scott E. Packard, USMC
  When humanitarian operations go sour, the grunts had better be on scene.
• Don't Forget the Fleet
  By Major Henry Black, USMC
  Goldwater-Nichols has not replaced Title 10, U.S.C.
• The Price of 'Marine Green' Still Is High
  By Bob Concordia
  Not much has changed at Parris Island over the past 40 years.
• Ring of Fire or Ring of Smoke?
  By F. J. West, Jr.
  If the rifle squad is central to this netcentric concept, then its C3 must be funded.
• What Was Nimitz Thinking?
  By Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.)
  Could we have bypassed Peleliu in 1944?
• Marine Corps Snaps
  The First Toni Bartlett Photo Contest Winners

Features

• Until Death Do Us Part?
  By Captain E. T. Gomulka, Chaplain Corps, USN
  Premarital training can reduce a dreadful military divorce rate.
• No Home on the Range
  By Commander Eric Okerstrom, USN
  Conserving training ranges and airspace has become a Joint problem.
• Forward . . . From Long Island
  By Captain Raymond S. McCord, USN, and Thomas S. Schoene
  The recovery of TWA 800 serves as the model.
• What We Need to Win the Drug War
  By Commander Matt Blizard, USCG, and Lieutenant Joe DiRenzo III, USCG Here are nine ways to skin this cat.

Departments

Commentary

• The Fleet: Here or Abroad, Modem or Antique, Powerful or Weak?

Naval Institute at 125

• Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC (Ret.)
• Dr. Dov Zakheim

Special

• Part III: Five Fleets: Around the World with the Nimitz

Professional Notes

• The Surface Navy Needs Spotters
• Buoys Provide Real-Time Surf Data
• In the Shadow of Landfall
• Change the Work-Up Cycle

Nobody asked me, but

• It's a Great Time To Be at Sea

Other Departments

• Membership News
• Comment and Discussion
• Another View
• Book Reviews
• Books of Interest
• The U.S. Navy
• Naval Systems
• Points of Interest
• World Naval Developments
• Combat Fleets
• Notebook
• Lest We Forget
• Index to Advertisers

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