This is Jocco Podcast number 145 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

The primary mission of the Marine Rifle Company and Platoon is to locate, close with, and

destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver or to repel his assault by fire and close combat.

The primary mission of the weapons platoon of the rifle company is to provide supporting,

direct and indirect fires, including close in anti-tank fires and demolitions for maneuvering

or defending elements of the rifle company.

Boom.

It does not get much more straightforward than that.

It is taken directly from FM-FM-6TAC4 Marine Rifle Company.

This is a solid manual, a very solid manual, a very solid field manual.

One of the reasons that I pulled it out again because I wanted to look at the general

principles of war.

The US military all branches talk about the principles of war as America sees the principles

of war.

For whatever reason, the FM-FM-6TAC4 has sort of the best descriptions of them that I like,

I should say, maybe they're not the best.

They're my preferential ones, the ones that I prefer.

The principles of war, pretty straightforward, but I wanted to talk about them and this

kind of led me down a little rabbit hole, which I sometimes go into when it comes to military,

strategies, principles, tactics.

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