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Legacy of ANGLICO

ANGLICO’s specialize in combined arms, fire support and communications capabilities in support of planning, coordinating and conducting terminal control of fires. Modern day ANGLICOs were created using Joint Assault Signals Company capabilities as a baseline concept. "The JASCO units were famously used for adjusting artillery fire in support of ground force. This is where the concept of ANGLICO and the JFO comes from," said Phillips...

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U.S. Marine relocate an unexploded ordnance item to a designated safe area in Peleliu, Republic of Palau, July 28. - U.S. Marine relocate an unexploded ordnance item to a designated safe area in Peleliu, Republic of Palau, July 28.

Task Force Koa Moana 20 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines make history on Peleliu

The island of Peleliu, Republic of Palau, is a tropical paradise with dense jungles, coral rock beaches, stretching reefs and sandbars just below the surface of the clear turquoise waves. However, encounters with unexploded ordnance from World War II are a fact of life in Peleliu that still endangers the local people. The Marines of Task Force Koa Moana 20, I Marine Expeditionary Force, intend to change that...

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