To: Cannoneer No. 4
Vietnam Lessons Learned, (then promptly forgotten) #47:
Never travel in lead position of convoy with vehicle windshield up. Bay Guys hop out in front of vehicle and shoot you, but you can't shoot through windshield because guy in front can't get weapon to bear and guy in back is looking out side.
Why won't windshield fold down on Humvee???????
#48: Take off all canvas. With canvas on, they can shoot at you, but you can't shoot at them 'cause you can't bear on them or even see them. Also when sierra hits the fan, you want multiple ways for 10 people to get in and out of vehicle, in 10 different directions, at same time.
#49: Take off all doors. See last half of #48 for reason.
#50: EVERY jeep (Humvee) is a gun jeep (Humvee). Take off that stupid door mount. Mount pintle for 360 degree swivel MG between seat backs of front seat. Driver drives, co-driver, (senior man in front passenger seat) covers forward. #3 man stands on the 360 degree MG. #4 and #5. sit facing outward, back to back in back seat area.
Floorboards and under seats covered with sandbags.
Everybody practices running pickup, to if vehicle is hit, crew unassed vehicle, goes to ground/ditch just long enough for next vehicle to get into range. Next vehicle ACCELERATES into killing zone, slows down a little, everyone jumps on board hood, back, spare tire, etc. Everyone, is shooting whether they see target or not. #2 vehicle never stops. Everyone unasses the killing zone, loops around behind ambushers and vigorously attacks their flank and flanking rear. Vehicles further in line assume new relative positions (lead, slack, etc) and move through killing zone ASAP
Bodies of bad guy KIAs are put on crown of road next to dead jeep and jeep is burned on spot, or towed away if can be towed quickly.
From first shots of ambush until area cleared, less than 4 min max.
30 posted on
03/08/2004 8:05:10 PM PST by
MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
See 33, especially the part about the running boards for raiding parties.
34 posted on
03/08/2004 9:20:06 PM PST by
Travis McGee
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To: MindBender26
Vietnam Lessons Learned, (then promptly forgotten) #47: Never travel in lead position of convoy with vehicle windshield up. Bay Guys hop out in front of vehicle and shoot you, but you can't shoot through windshield because guy in front can't get weapon to bear and guy in back is looking out side.
Why won't windshield fold down on Humvee???????
#48: Take off all canvas. With canvas on, they can shoot at you, but you can't shoot at them 'cause you can't bear on them or even see them. Also when sierra hits the fan, you want multiple ways for 10 people to get in and out of vehicle, in 10 different directions, at same time.
Not necessarily. Leaving the canvas on over the driver's position sheltered him [and the radios] when it rained, and having the canvas slope from a high position in back to a lower position in front helped keep any tossed grenades out of the driver's compartment- without such a roof there was too much chance one could be pitched in and roll under the seats due to the slope of the floorboards, expecially if the floor was sandbagged against the possibility of having one rolled underneath.
51 posted on
03/09/2004 3:12:00 AM PST by
archy
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