USMC Deep Recon Platoon
US DoD Photo
Marines with the Deep Reconnaissance Platoon (DRP), 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division await the beginning of an exercise, 2003.
Deep Reconnaissance Platoons perform force reconnaissance operations, typically operating far from their parent Marine Air Ground Task Force's front line.
They are experts at covert intelligence gathering, concealment, amphibious, parachute and helicopter insertion techniques.
