In 1966, the Marine Corps introduced a bold, new concept to the battlefield.
Stingray is the definitive history of these units and missions, available now for the first time in trade-paperback format..
Force Recon Marine and team leader Bruce "Doc" Norton participated in many Stingray missions and, now, through interviews, eyewitness accounts, and declassified documents, he takes the reader behind enemy lines, telling the full story of Stingray\'s origins and operations. with devastating accuracy and effect. . .
Like today\'s Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Marine Force Recon units that operate behind enemy lines using laser pointers and satellite communications, these Stingray Patrols helped target the enemy for artillery and air strikes .
Surrounded on all sides by North Vietnamese Army troops and Viet Cong guerillas, these small, high-effective teams brought death and destruction to the enemy without ever going head-to-head in a gunfight with them.
One of the most influential strategies of the Vietnam War, the Stingray Patrol comprised seven to ten marines in small teams, inserted by chopper deep in enemy territory.
Little did the designers of that concept realize that it would change the way wars are fought, and the Corps, from that day forward.
In 1966, the Marine Corps introduced a bold, new concept to the battlefield
