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Reconnaissance
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Reconnaissance, by definition, is a search for useful military information. Dating back to the Civil War when hardy souls went aloft in silk balloons, being in the air to see what the other side is doing has been critical to military doctrine. Lockheed Martin's expertise in reconnaissance and its sea going equivalent, maritime patrol, dates back to the company's earliest days. Today, the U-2 Dragon Lady and P-3 Orion are this country's eyes in the sky.
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. LRO will launch in late 2008 with the objectives to finding safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology.
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Though a Deep Reconnaissance mission requires that the team not be compromised, the reality of life is that they may. When that happens, the rules change. Because they are in the deep battle area, they cannot count on artillery support, and CAS and the extract birds may be a long time coming. They must be able to shoot, move and communicate, but unlike a Grunt, they are operating in a friendly vacuum. The 4 man team simply does not have enough guns to work as two elements.
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The National Reconnaissance Office, which designs dazzlingly sophisticated spy satellites, manages its books with considerably less skill. In the last few years, it somehow lost track of more than $2 billion in its own budget. This remarkable accounting feat, partly disclosed last year and confirmed this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, is attributed by intelligence officials and members of Congress to lax management and excessive secrecy at the organization.
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In Deep Reconnaissance, survival is based on stealth, and stealth is a by-product of alertness. A 4-man team does not have the numbers to provide an adequate rest cycle while maintaining proper security.
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Recently it was felt by some that the IHR mission requires too much training time to be proficient, and that time spent in training for DA missions would degrade the Deep Reconnaissance capability. To that end the Marine Corps no longer advertises the IHR mission. However, Maritime Interdiction Operations, GOPLAT, prisoner recovery etc. all require a high degree of proficiency in surgical shooting and CQB skills. The Marine Corps has wisely not lowered the shooting standards and while IHR may not now exist as a mission, the capability is still resident in the Company.
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