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    • Recon: Tough Choices

      Recon: Tough Choices

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   08.02.2005

      2005 – With a new round of base closures and realignments announced, Recon visits one expanding base - Fort Bliss in Texas - and two bases in Colorado and California closed in earlier rounds....

    • Recon: Somebody's Gotta Do It

      Recon: Somebody's Gotta Do It

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   07.07.2008

      2008 – The upkeep of the military yields a plenty of dirty, smelly and generally undesirable jobs, but somebody’s gotta do it. See what it’s like for those that draw the short straw....

    • Recon: Close Combat

      Recon: Close Combat

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   05.04.2009

      2009 – Both the Army and the Marine Corps are mixing time-honored combat skills with multiple martial arts techniques to put a modern twist on hand-to-hand fighting....

    • Recon: Combat Artists

      Recon: Combat Artists

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   04.30.2009

      2009 – As long as there have been wars, there have been a few who stood witness to events - artists who sketched and painted what they experienced in base camps and on battlefields....

    • Recon: Comic Relief

      Recon: Comic Relief

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   09.04.2009

      2009 – Sometimes it hurts so bad you just have to laugh. ‘Comic Relief’ looks at how military cartoonists draw humor from their own experiences....

    • Recon: Drill

      Recon: Drill

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   04.30.2009

      2009 – This Recon follows drill teams of the Army, Navy and Air Force as they prepare and perform their unique, challenging and sometimes dangerous drill routines....

    • Recon: Pressure Cooker

      Recon: Pressure Cooker

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   04.30.2009

      2009 – The duties of a military chef can be as varied as a menu, from serving up rations in the dining facility to creating culinary works of art at international competitions....

    • Recon: Reset

      Recon: Reset

      Courtesy Video   |   Defense.gov   |   12.31.2009

      2010 – We update 3 past episodes featuring new developments to support Marines, a prosthetic with facile fingers, and a tech breakthrough that makes illegal immigration more difficult....