In April, Ranger Class 06-26 became the first class to undergo the school's new bayonet course, a quarter-mile event in which soldiers crawl through tunnels, sprint over open fields, and negotiate barbed wire fence lines. Along the way, soldiers must drive their bayonets into silicone foes toting rubber Kalashnikovs and manning sand-bag machine gun nests. The bayonet course is the last chance for soldiers to demonstrate to their instructors that they are ready "to close the last 100 yards and destroy the enemy."
The other favored US Army hand-to-hand combat weapon is the entrenching tool
The last US military bayonet charge was led by the late US Army Col. Lewis L. Millett (Ret.). He received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading Company E, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, in a bayonet charge up Hill 180 near Soam-Ni, Korea on 7 Feb 1951: Medal of Honor Winner
The US Army also recently reopened its Jungle Warfare Training Center in Panama. The Defense Department is truly reverting back to the 1947 Dept of War. The trillions of dollars spent on warfare and wasteful contracts guarantees there will be no funds for universal healthcare for Americans, as enjoyed by the residents of Israel, Germany, Canada, Cuba, Iran, Taiwan, Greenland, tiny Albania, and in 2027, Mexico.
