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56. Fact Sheet on the Combined Action Force, 2.
57. USMC, Small Wars Manual, ch. 2, “Organization,” 43–44.
58. Ibid., ch. 6, “Infantry Patrols,” 48–49.
59. Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 70.
60. Fuller and Cosmas, Marines in the Dominican Republic, 32.
61. Millett and Gaddy, “Administering the Protectorates,” 105.
62. Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 101.
63. Director Lt. Col. Sherwood A. Brunnenmeyer, oral history file 2898, USMC
Vietnam War Oral History Collection, transcription by Kristen Amundsen,
February 22, 2012.
64. Oral history file 3480, USMC Vietnam War Oral History Collection, transcription
by Claire Ahlstrom, February 23, 2012.
65. Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities, 17–20.
66. Ibid., appendix E, E- 5. See also Jimmy Sparrow, oral history in Hemingway,
Our War Was Different, 44, and the wide range of motley photos on the CAP
website, http://​capmarine​.com/.
67. Warren Carmon, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 167; oral
history file 3480, USMC Vietnam War Oral History Collection, transcription
by Claire Ahlstrom, February 23, 2012.
68. Art Falco, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 161.
69. Warren Carmon, oral history, ibid., 167.
70. Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities, 35. See also Klyman, “Combined
Action Program,” and H. G. Duncan, oral history in Hemingway, Our
War Was Different, 155.
71. For examples, see Peterson, Combined Action Platoons, 89–92.
72. For a look at the thinking behind the Marine Corps’s latest ad campaign, see
Randy Shepard, “How the U.S. Marines Brought Rambo and Bono Together
through Research (and Why),” demographics research and commercial campaign
assessment paper prepared for J. Walter Thompson Co. and selected as
a Jay Chiat Awards Submission Winner (2012). Pdf available at http://​stratfest​
.aaaa​.org​/2012​- winners/.
73. The motto was codified further in the Marine Corps’s Small- Unit Leaders’
Guide to Counterinsurgency, MCIP 3- 33.01 (2006), 37.