Watch: How Marines use small drones for situational awareness

Engineers and Marines demonstrate how they get "over the hill" reconnaissance.

Soldiers don’t always need a big-picture view of the battle space. Sometimes, what they need is “over the hill” reconnaissance. Engineers and Marines at Quantico recently demonstrated how they use small drones — called Wasp, Raven and Puma — to gain situational awareness in the field, and included it in a video posted on the Armed With Science website.