Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq

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by John C. McManus


  Epilogue

  1 Department of Defense Web site, Fiscal Year 2010 Budget by Service; Mackubin Thomas Owens, “Let’s Have Flexible Armed Forces,” editorial, Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2009; Richard Lardner, “Aging Air Force Wants Big Bucks Fix,” Associated Press, February 18, 2008; August Cole and Yochi Dreazen, “Boots on the Ground or Weapons in the Sky?” Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2008; Ann Scott Tyson, “Army, Marines to Seek More Troops,” Washington Post, December 13, 2006; John Keller, “2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts,” Military & Aerospace Electronics, May 22, 2009; Ralph Peters, “The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs,” Weekly Standard, February 6, 2006, p. 18; Tom Donnelly, “The Army We Need,” Weekly Standard, June 4, 2007, pp. 21-28; Brian Mockenhaupt, “The Army We Have,” Atlantic, June 2007, pp. 86-99; S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Command in Future War (Alexandria, VA: Byrrd Enterprises, Inc., 1947), pp. 208-09. As of early 2008, the Army’s active duty strength was about 512,000 soldiers. Mockenhaupt, in his research, found that among seventeen- to twenty-four-year-olds, the prime group the Army relies upon for its recruits, only three in ten are eligible for service under Army standards. The rest are disqualified for physical, mental, or criminal reasons. The pool of available infantry recruits is obviously, then, even smaller and more elite.

  2 David Watson, e-mail to the author, January 4, 2008; Robert Harriman, e-mail to the author, March 4, 2008; Robert Kaplan, “Modern Heroes,” editorial, Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2007; Lieutenant Donald Taggart, “You’re Part of the Infantry,” Infantry, July 1944, p. 21; Charles Edmunson, “Why Warriors Fight,” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1944, pp. 3-10; Adrian Lewis, The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II Through Operation Iraqi Freedom (New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 457.

  3 Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, “On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs,” extracted from On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace (Portland, OR: PPCT Publications, 2007).

  INDEX

  Aachen, Germany, 1944

  Abizaid, John

  Abrams tanks:

  at Fallujah

  in Gulf War

  Abu Ghraib scandal

  AC-130 Bashers

  Adams, George

  Adamski, Ed

  Adda, Lionel

  Adelup Point, Guam

  Admire, John

  Afghanistan, U.S. War in

  African-American soldiers

  Agat, Guammapmap

  Aidid, Mohammed

  Airmobile infantry combat

  Air power vs. ground power

  Air strikes:

  at Aachen

  at Dak To

  at Fallujah

  at Guammap

  in Gulf War

  in Operation Masher/White Wing

  at Peleliu

  Akins, John

  Al Anbar, Iraq

  Aldridge, Joe

  Al Jazeera

  Allawi, Ayad

  Allen, Roy

  Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Alpha Troop, 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Amphibious combat:

  Guam

  Peleliu

  Amyett, Jimmy

  Anderson, Travis

  Andrasovsky, Henry

  An Lao Valley, Vietnammap

  Arcala, Kurtis

  Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP)

  Arnold, Hap

  Asan Point, Guammap

  Attrition strategy in Vietnam War

  Ayres, Christopher

  Babitz, Joe

  Back clearing

  Bacon, Clinton

  Baghdad, Iraq

  Ballard, Bill

  Banzai attacks

  Barnes, John

  Barnes, Richard

  Baroni, Michael

  Bartkiewicz, Edward

  Battle of the Slopes, Vietnam

  Battleson, David

  Bayow, Steven

  Beckman, John

  Beckwith, Charlie

  Belanger, Roger

  Belknap, Glen

  Bell, Terry

  Bellavia, David

  Bellon, Dave

  Bercaw, William

  Berg, Nicholas

  Berger, Hugh

  Berger, Spencer

  Bickerstaff, Ted

  Big Boy (war dog)

  Big-unit warfare in Vietnam

  Binh Dinh province, Vietnammap

  Biological weapons

  Black Watch Regiment (British Army)

  Blankennagel, Richard

  Bledsoe, Patrick

  Bobrowski, Igor

  “Bodies” (Drowning Pool)

  Bodnar, George

  Body counts, in Vietnam War

  Boeger, Alvin

  Boehme, William

  Boggiano, Chris

  Boicourt, Harold

  Boland, Dillard

  Bolger, Daniel

  Bombardments (see Air strikes)

  Bone, Otis

  Bong Son plain, Vietnammap

  Booby traps:

  at Aachen

  at Peleliu

  in Vietnam War

  Boos, Francis

  Boswood, Justin

  Botsford, Robert

  Bowles, Gary

  Bradley Fighting Vehicles:

  at Fallujah

  in Gulf War

  Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry (U.S. Army)

  Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Bremer, Paul

  British Royal Navy

  Brockaway, John

  Brown, Charles

  Brown, Cory

  Brown, Hop

  Brown, Neil

  Brown, Reeon

  Broz, Jack

  Bryant, Gary

  Bryant, Tammy

  Buckholz Station, Belgiummap

  Buhl, Williemap

  Building-contained improvised explosive devices (BCIEDs)

  Bulge, north shoulder of

  Bundschu Ridge, Guam

  Burchett, Charlie

  Burger, Hugh

  Burkett, Clyde

  Burnett, William

  Burns, Gene

  Bush, George W.

  Bushido warrior code

  Bütgenbach, Belgium

  Butler, Arthur

  Butler, Charles

  Butler, Oliver

  Calvin, Carin

  Cambodia

  Cantrell, James

  Capehart, Steve

  Carmon, Warren

  Castillo, Ishmael

  Casualties :

  at Aachen

  at Dak To

  at Fallujah

  at Guam

  at northern shoulder, Battle of the Bulge

  in Operation Masher/White Wing

  at Peleliu

  U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs) and

  in Vietnam War

  Cates, William

  Caves, Japanese defense of Peleliu in

  C Company, Task Force Infantry (U.S. Army)

  Cecil, Jerry

  Central Highlands, Vietnam

  Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Charlie Company, 4th Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Chemical weapons

  Cheney, Dick

  Chinito Cliff, Guam

  Christenson, Wayne

  Civilian casualties, in Fallujah

  Claymor
e mines

  Climie, Thomas

  Clutter, Chuck

  CNN

  Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

  Cold War

  Coleman, William

  Collins, J. Lawton

  Combat fatigue (psychoneurosis)

  Combined action platoons (CAPs), U.S. Marine Corps

  Combs, Carl

  Command and General Staff College (U.S. Army)

  Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  Condition Black

  Conley, Bill

  Conner, James “Bennie”

  Connolly, William

  Conolly, Richard

  Conway, James

  Cook, Marlin

  Corcoran, Casey

  Corley, John

  Corpsmen, U.S. Navy:

  at Peleliu

  in U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs)

  Corson, William

  Cossey, Keith

  Costella, Alexander

  Coultrey, William

  Counterinsurgent wars:

  in Afghanistan

  in Iraq (see Iraq War)

  Cousino, Michael

  Cousins, Larry

  Cowan, Richard

  Cox, Ken

  Craig, Robert

  Cramer, Kory

  Crandall, Bruce

  “Crow’s Foot” area, Vietnam

  Curran, Jim

  Curry, Jerry

  Cushman, Robert

  Dak To, Vietnam

  Dalyai, Danny

  Daniel, Derrill

  Danowitz, Edwin

  Dark, Robert

  Daube, John

  Davis, Ray

  Davis, Russell

  D-day, on Peleliu

  Deakin, Harold

  Dean, Howard

  Deen, Braswell

  Deliberti, Michael

  Delta Force (U.S. Army)

  DeRemer, Jacques “Jack”

  Desert Storm (see Gulf War)

  Detrixhe, James

  Dettor, Robert

  Dewitt, Lisa

  Diduryk, Myron

  Dienstag, Joseph

  Dietrich, Joseph “Sepp”

  Dietz, Andy

  Doan, Dong

  Dog Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Dolenc, Eddie

  Donovan, Jim

  Douglas, Robert

  Douhet, Giulio

  Drake, Mack

  Driss, Dan

  Dye, Charles

  Eagen, John

  Edmunds, Steve

  Edwards, Steven

  18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)

  18th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)map

  81st Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

  82nd Airborne Division (U.S. Army)

  Ek, Paul

  11th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  Elliot, Dukin

  Elliott, Ennis

  Elrod, Richard

  Engel, Gerhard

  Ernst, Louis

  Eroshevich, Michael

  Esper, Mark

  Estes, Jackson

  Etter, Harold

  Exorcist, The (film)

  Face of Battle, The (Keegan)

  Falcone, John

  Fallujah, Iraq

  Fallujah Brigade

  Farley, Medic

  Faulkenberg, Steve

  Ferguson, Gene

  Ferro, Shorty

  Fesmire, John “Skip,”

  Fetzer, Dale

  Fields, Lewis

  15th Field Artillery Battalion (U.S. Army)

  5th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  Finnigan, Patrick

  1st Armored Division (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map

  1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map

  1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map

  1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 394th Infantry (U.S. Army)

  1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry

  Regiment (U.S. Army)

  1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

  1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

  1st Cavalry Division (U.S. Army)map

  1st Infantry Division (“Big Red One,” U.S. Army):

  at Aachenmap

  in Gulf Warmap

  1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps):

  at Fallujahmap

  in Gulf Warmap

  at Peleliu

  1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps) map

  1st Provisional Marine Brigade (U.S. Marine Corps)

  Fischer, Walt

  Fischer, Willi

  Fisher, Richard

  Fitts, Colin

  503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  Flagg, James

  Fleet Marine Force (U.S. Navy)

  Fleming, Ronald

  Floyd, Billy

  Flynn, Ray

  Flynn, Thomas

  Follansbee, Ben

  Fontenot, Gregory

  Fort, George

  40th Pack Howitzer Battalion (U.S. Army)

  4th Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  4th Infantry Division (“Ivy Division,” U.S. Army) map

  4th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

  48th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army)

  Fox, Fred

  Frank, Fred

  Franklin, Daniel

  Freidt, Jason

  Friendly fire, in Gulf War

  Fulks, James

  Funk, David

  Gaan Point, Guam

  Gailey, Harry

  Gallogly, Pete

  Gamber, Ralph

  Gara, Bill

  Garrett, John

  Garvey, Jack

  Garwick, Keith

  Gast, Lauren

  Gauff, William

  Geiger, Roy

  German Army

  at Aachen

  at north shoulder of the Bulge

  German civilians

  Giaimo, David

  Gianforte, Shawn

  Gilhooley, Pete

  Gilson, L. A.

  Gladden, Mike

  Godwin, Jon

  Goffigan, Charles

  Goodson, Barry

  Goodwin, Frank

  Gorton, Gary

  Granville, John

  Grayson, Joe

  Grazing fire

  Ground power:

  importance of

  vs. air power

  vs. sea power

  vs. techno-war

  Grunts, defined

  Guadalcanal Diary (Tregaskis)

  Guam

  Gulf War, 1991

  Guyer, William

  Gwin, Larry

  Hackett, Matthew

  Hagan, Willie

  Hall, Frank “Blackie,”

  Hall, W. Carvel

  Halsey, William “Bull,”

  Hancock, Frank

  Hancock, William

  Hankel, Halland

  Hanks, Michael

  Hanneken, Herman

  Hardy, Abe

  Harris, Bucky

  Harrold, Leslie

  Harvey, Chris

  Harvey, Tom

  Haswell, James

  Hauser, Christine

  Hayes, Kenneth

  Headley, Jim

  Helicopters :

  at Dak To

  at Fallujah

  in G
ulf War

  in Operation Masher/White Wing

  Herrera, Javier

  Higgens boats

  Hill, Leo

  Hill, Tom

  Hill 100, Peleliu

  Hill 724, Dak To, Vietnam

  Hill 875, Dak To, Vietnam

  Hilliard, John

  Hiner, Chuck

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hitler Youth

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Hodges, Courtney

  Hong, Vu

  Hon Mot, Vietnam

  Honsowetz, Russell

  “Hooah,” use of term

  House, Roy

  Huber, John

  Hudson, Swanson

  Huebner, Clarence

  “Hugging the belt” tactic

  Hunt, George

  Hunt, Herbert

  Hunter Killer approach

  Huntzinger, Merrill

  Hussein, Saddam

  Ibenthal, Donald

  Iiams, William

  I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF)

  Imperial General Headquarters (IGH)

  Imperial Japanese Army (see Japanese Army)

  Imperial Japanese Navy

  Improvised explosive devices (IEDs)

  in Baghdad, Iraq

  in Fallujah, Iraq

  in Tikrit, Iraq

  Infantry soldiers (see Ground power)

  Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, The (Mahan)

  Inoue, Sadae

  Iraqi Army:

  in Baghdad

  in Desert Storm

  at Fallujah

  Iraqi civilians casualties, in Fallujah

  Iraqi Governing Council (IGC)

  Iraqi Interim Government (IIG)

  Iraqi Ministry of Health

  Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)

  Iraq War

  Baghdad

  emphasis on techno-war in

  Fallujah

  ground force combat fatalities in

  Tikrit

  Irby, Pierce

  “Iron Triangle,” Vietnammap

  Itou, Seiichi

  Iwan, Edward

  Jacobsen, Kenneth

  Japanese Army:

  banzai attacks by

  commitment to inland defense by

  at Guam

  at Peleliu

  yamato-damashii (Japanese fighting spirit) of

  Jesmer, David

  Johnson, Clarence

  Johnson, James

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnston, Richard

  Joint direct attack munition (JDAM)

  Jones, Roland

  Jones, Thomas B.

  Kading, Kenneth

  Kallas, Steve

  Kaplan, Robert

  Karpowicz, Bill

  Kasal, Brad

  Kaufman, Harold

  K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

  Keegan, John

  Keller, Jerry

 

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