[XJarhead]

Well, if you've gotta go back to Patton's 3rd Army in Metz in 1944, its obviously not something that happens too often. And if such as situation should ever arise again, you'd have the towed howitzers. Just because they are GS artillery by TO doesn't mean that can't perform direct support if assigned to that mission.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sure.

But think about your own experience.

How many Pentagon "think tanks" and "operational analysis" wargames would place a MLRS group (theirs OR ours!) under direct fire from an enemy mobile group of infantry, Humvees/jeeps/APC's?

It happened!

Sure, it wasn't "supposed" to happen. Those things (OURS and THEIRS!) are supposed to be protected behind miles of "front-line" defenses .....

But it happened.