Disagree on the dismounts.
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reed11b
Nope...19M (bradley operator) and 19H/D (anti armour scout/crewman). Dismounts can be 11B...
Make 'em 19Ds Cav Scts :D.
Sort of kidding; I believe in Dragoons...
Mech infantry and light infantry both have a place but they are also very different insofar as mindset is concerned. Put a light 11B in a Mech unit and most will not like it at all; the reverse is also true...
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11H only makes sense if they had more anti-tank infantry weapons then we currently use.
You'd make a great personnel guy; no specialists, only one MOS for all. ;)
You can rest assured we'll have a lot more Inf AT wpns if we get in a war with a modern armed force... :eek:
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I would bring back 11D (infantry scout) instead of poaching the line doggies for there best soldiers.
Not quite. Back in the 60s, 11D was a Cavalry Scout (and 11E, Tank Crewman). It existed long ago and far away when the Per community once before tried to get down to one MOS. Unsuccessfully, naturally. They later became 19D and 19E. LINK which they still are today.
The true Infantry Scout back in those days was an 11F. Actually, that was for the NCOs, SGT and above -- the Troops in the Recon Platoons were 11Bs in Abn and Light Inf, 11M in Mech while the Tm and Sqd Ldrs plus the PSG were 11Fs. All were 11Ds in the Cav (except for the Armored Cav Plt which also had 11/19Es and 11B/Ms AND 11Cs :wry:).
Details Emerge on Army's Failed NLOS-LS Missile
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In testimony before lawmakers yesterday, David Duma, OSD’s Principal Deputy Director for Operational Testing and Evaluation (OT&E), detailed failings of the Army’s Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS).
During the most recent tests carried out in February, new navigation software caused six of seven total system aborts. Overall missile reliability is just 61 percent, well below the 85 percent requirement. The missile’s problems appear to be with its infrared seeker; missiles using the IR seeker hit only 5 out of 11 times during tests last year and again this year.
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/16/de...#axzz0lIZs7E4R