Candidate's / Lieutenant's Gouge

Word from TBS is that things are moving toward a combat focus in terms of PT.  Lieutenants with orders to TBS or Candidates graduating soon should alter their PT to reflect this shift.  Training in boots and utes will be beneficial to all, but especially to those heading to TBS soon.  With that in mind training in go fasters is also essential to speed work and endurance.  Boot and utes should be a supplement to your training not a replacement.
Rifle qualifications may be changing as well.  The regular week at the range for qualification is still in place however, recently the companies shot two additional courses of fire; tables two and three.  These courses are labled "combat shooting" and involve; hammer pairs, failure drills, pivots, movement and night firing from 25 yards and in.  As always this is not official word and only good gouge from those in training.  Candidates and Marines should be constantly working to improve mentally, physically and morally. 


A Few Good Reads

Armed Forces Officer- This book breaks down what it means to be an officer in the United States Armed Forces.

Military Experience and CEO's - A study that links Military Officers with the desireable qualities of CEO's in top Corporations.

First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
by LtGen Krulak

First to Fight
by Nathaniel Fick

MCWP 6-11 Leading Marines

Fields of Fire
by J. Webb

The Art of War
by Sun Tzu

The Anatomy of Courage
by L. Moran

On Infantry
by J.A. English

Small Unit Leaders Guide to Counterinsurgency

The Soldier’s Load
by S.L.A. Marshall

Once A Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
by Nick Popaditch and Mike Steere

The Lions of Iwo Jima
by Maj Gen (ret) F. Haynes and J. Warren

The Coldest Winter:  America and the Korean War
by D. Halberstam

Tiger Force:  A True Story of Men and War
by M. Sallah and M. Weiss

Baghdad at Surnise:  A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq
by P. Mansoor

Battle Exhortation, The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
by K. Yellin

The Last Stand of Fox Company
by B. Drury and T. Clavin