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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