Posted on 07/24/2018 7:32:29 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta
I recall those on this site who thought Mattis was great. These damn Gens have never been in real combat shooting at the enemy with the enemy trying to kill you too. These Gens ride over roads after other troops have already led the way.
Booz, Alexander and Hamilton have many on the grease. they have offices near every military Fort, Base, Station, etc. They even have smaller companies do bidding for them.
True about tanks as they are worthless in jungles/swamps/mountains, etc.
Combat troops have no damn business on roads. Helicopter resupply or cargo planes like the C-123 and 130’s work fine.
What is this riding crap? I recall the idiots in late 72-73 at FT Benning. They told all of us in the advanced course that our next war would be fighting in Europe against Russia. That is why all the damn Mech Infantry and combined arms teams.
Spending six weeks in a foxhole tells me our leaders are not aggressively pursuing the damn enemy. Let me tell you how an Infantry unit is supposed to run combat OPS/patrols. Now, this may be their basecamp, but; the location sounds more like an outpost. I was Infantry. I was an 11B then 11F before Infantry OCS, airborne and SF officer’s course. I had a company of mostly Rhade Montagnards in Vietnam with three great SF NCO’s as platoon leaders. We rarely operated with any arty support. Only some local security OPS were we within 15K’s of 105 howitzers. Most OPS were 50-70 plus K’s from our basecamp/HQ. We operated on the Cambodian border and mostly with 32 men total. We used a lot of cover and concealment to move and if we had to cross open ground I’d send a six man unit across with one carrying a radio so they looked like a six man recon team. Once they scouted the other side they’d radio back it was OK. We’d set up a perimeter at night with four eight man squads. Each squad had an M60 gunner and asst., an M79 man and 5 riflemen. Every rifleman had a LAW plus an M60 mortar round he carried in his ruck. One squad had my M60 mortar man who was good. We all put our M60 round in a stack near him. We had 50% awake in two shifts all night. We did not take a crap on OPS as we were given a handful of lomotil pills prior to any OP. When we came back we were given a brown bomber. That pill would send you running to the latrine. If a man needed to pee- he did not go more then a few feet off. We had TAC air on call 24/7 and helicopter gunships from 0900- 1600 hours.
Said he was sure he was going to die as they were a couple of platoons spread out across the edge of the valley, divided into groups of 3-4 hundreds of yards apart, with an unknown number of enemies across from them, with no significant support of any kind available. They had dismounted and walked about 12 miles from their dropoff point. Can't recall what he said the elevation was.
He faced frequent sniper fire and what he described as "an occasional storm of fire that was never anywhere close to us," and barely laid eyes on an insurgent. He was told that the enemy wasn't supposed to know they were there, so no smoking and no leaving the foxholes to take a dump.
Finished his story by saying "yeah, pretty f###ing sure they knew we were there."
If she belongs in the uniform, she'll coldcock whoever does it. Then get back to work.
“If she belongs in the uniform, she’ll coldcock whoever does it. Then get back to work. “
You mean she won’t hire a lawyer and do TV interviews?
Not if we’re doing our recruiting right. :-)
“Not if we’re doing our recruiting right.”
You’d never know by looking at our media that there are tough women out there. That’s heartening.
The only people portrayed as dumbasses and people bad for the society by the media are white males.
Crazy. So, your friend based on today’s terms was field ARTY/ like an FO. If one can read a map and knows his 8 digit coordinates-he does not need any ARTY party that in the army is usually a 1LT and his SGT. Anyways, those ROE’s you state stink. No wonder Obama got us run out of places. A US Infantry unit like a rifle company has their own 81 mm mortars. Where were they. The BN HHC has the 4.2’s which are like a 120 MM. 12 miles from an LZ or from being dropped off by mech vehicles there is out of 105 range. Just 10 miles is 16 K’s. 105 mm are effective to 15K’s. What you describe sounds to me like whoever was the unit CO needed to be relieved plus his boss also.
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