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Piedmont, John P. DET ONE: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment (n.d.): n. pag. Www.marines.mil. Web. 05 Mar. 2015.

Couch, Dick. Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2014. Print.

Pushies, Fred J. MARSOC: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. Minneapolis: MBI Pub., 2011. Print.

Modified annotated bibliography below. Still in the beginning stages of how to implement each source into the article. Lots of information to sift through and figure out where to put/add on to, and where a new section

I will be using my three resources to build upon the CSO selection and training phase of the United States Marine Corps Critical Skills Operator Wikipedia article. Depending upon how much information I can collect, another section of the article could be created. As it is, the article contains adequate information to give a basic understanding of what a Critical Skills Operator is, but there is more material that can be covered to make the article nicer and more complete. For instance, Dick Couch, the author of Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine chronicles the journey of an entire ITC class and covers in-depth what CSO selection and training is like. Each phase is covered and broken down meticulously. Furthermore, in Fred Pushie's book, MARSOC: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command, not only is selection and training covered but also the type of weapons and gear Critical Skills Operators employ on the battlefield. Last but not least, John Piedmont's book DET ONE, covers the predecessor to MARSOC and how it came to be. Det One was stood up as an experimental unit as a result of the Global War On Terror for roughly three years and subsequently disbanded to pave the way for MARSOC.

As of now the way I see myself revising this article is by adding heavily to the selection and training section and possibly adding a new section for weapons and gear used. The information on DET ONE can be added on to give readers some background on MARSOC and