Marine Monday: Compass Point Formation

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Hey Space Cadets, how are you today? I’m great, still riding the high my Dragon gave me yesterday!  I wrote 5k words and will hit the finish line in under ten days!  Operation Breakout is now at 68k words and around 75% complete and I couldn’t be happier!  Now, let’s see if I can keep up this pace!  Admittedly, I am at the fun part of the book which is the easiest to write. I mean, what’s not to love about writing combat scenes?

 

Now, onto today’s topic! Today’s Marine Monday is about combat tactics in an interstellar universe, which requires fighting men and women to consider things in this spherical manner instead of on a plane. It’s not just what above of you and around you, now it’s what’s below you and around you as well. This obviously means that future warriors will have to be even more alert than their modern counterparts. Further, the cost for making mistakes escalates when you are discussing combat in the vacuums of space. The Void is a harsh and unforgiving place where only the strong survive, which necessitates the creation of new and constantly evolving tactics for the battlefield. What works today, might not work tomorrow.

 

How do we know all of this?  Well, today we have another excerpt from one of the manuals purloined by the LegionLeaks hero!  Take a peak, before they come for us and it disappears forever!

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One of the afore mentioned tactics is the Compass Point Formation. Interested in knowing more?  Well, read the excerpt from their manual, and give it a quick look over!

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Hopefully this whet your appetite for me, and if so you should pop on back next week where we look at other combat formations!

 

 

Until next time, stay frosty and don’t forget to keep your powder dry! 

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JR

 

 –> As usual, all images came from the Google’s “labeled for reuse” section or are videos used by JR Handley for use under the Fair Use Doctrine.

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J.R. Handley

J.R. Handley is a pseudonym for a family writing team. He is a veteran infantry sergeant with the 101st Airborne Division and the 28th Infantry Division. His family is the kind of crazy that interprets his insanity into cogent English. He writes the sci-fi while they proofread it. The sergeant is a two-time combat veteran of the late unpleasantness in Mesopotamia where he was wounded, likely doing something stupid. He started writing military science fiction as part of a therapy program suggested by his doctor, and hopes to entertain you while he attempts to excise his demons through these creative endeavors. In addition to being just another dysfunctional veteran, he is a stay-at-home parent, avid reader and all-around nerd. Luckily for him, his family joins him in his fandom nerdalitry.

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