Marines Learn Ways to be 'Non-Lethal'

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Marines Learn Ways to be 'Non-Lethal'
Marine Corps News | SSgt. Sergio Jimenez | January 30, 2008

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait - Riots and civil disturbances don't just happen out of thin air. The anatomy of a riot is much like that of a Molotov cocktail. Both are created by instigators who add fuel and fire to combustible materials to provoke mayhem. Take one of these elements away and a riot dies.

How to remove one of these elements to diffuse a riot is one of the biggest lessons Marines and Sailors from G Battery, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, learned during an intensive 54-hour non-lethal weapons training course here.

The 11th MEU, from Camp Pendleton, Calif., is training in Kuwait as part of their scheduled six-month deployment through the Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf region.

"The decision to use force and how much force to use is always a tough one," said Cpl. William H. Anderson, a fire direction control man from Sonora, Calif. This training has definitely prepared Marines to make the right choice.

"It's by far the best non-lethal weapons training I have ever seen."


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