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if they're on or near the military crest provided one is present; the blowdown can do an amazing amount of damage. If there is no military crest then you are indeed stuck with direct fire. Reverse...

Lot of calls for fire by unit NCOs not FOs. While their knowing what they were doing was definitely an asset, in my observation a good FDC could talk a poor FO or even Joe Tentpeg into getting stuff...

My experience is dated and thus refers to different weapons and ammunition (but in the same calibers other than the 120mm for 4.2" [107mm] switch) but Mortars rarely got cranky with good crews. ...

reasonable options. Sometimes you don't have those...

The Army will not want to buy the 53K because they didn't invent it. American parochialism is alive and well, budget problems or not...

They'll point out that the Chinook can do almost the same...

Commonwealth and US patrols are used for for that. Commonly called Contact Patrols (sometimes by some Communications Patrols). No sense sending a Platoon or even a Squad if a Team sized patrol is...

Rarely, depended on the location and situation. More so in cities but not universally, almost never away from them. Very rarely in Korea, sometimes in Viet Nam. Varied in other places.Since most of...

Seems to me METT-TC, as always, applies. Do the guys in Afghanistan and the Philippines know about this urban stuff?

One should always expect contact and to take casualties. One should never...

but I would hope you were never hit because you were doing it right, not due to luck -- which IMO, is finding a parking place at the Mall during the Christmas Season.I'd say "not necessarily" to...

Having led or participated in well over a hundred recon and combat patrols in less than Platoon (some less than even Squad) strength, I'm having difficulty seeing a rationale for that.

I would, in...

Grumpily accepted.Why would I do that; you merely suggest some possibly excessively light penance for error -- that's to be encouraged. Good job.Is that a Socratic quote...Just hand me that oxygen...

Sections 1.12 and 1.13, Canadian Human Rights Act ( R.S., 1985, c. H-6 ). :p :D

and so too did Ken White -- proving even a General can be correct occasionally... :D

I can't even bloviate and make that better...

All very, very true and the first two are hypercritical and too often ignored. You do good work; take the rest of the day off... ;)

It helps a great deal but is not perfect in that sense, a bright green or red line is still fairly easy to spot and work a back bearing as long as one is not too far off axis.That works well with the...

and regrettably ill informed as to reality versus theory. Not to be confrontational, I truly do not mean to be but you make these assertions based on your reading as if they were fact. Mostly, they...

Yet again beguiled by theory. What's stated above was the theory written by some young Snowbird in the air conditioning of Building 4. Practically, in combat, that rarely ever worked or happened.

theoretical as opposed to the actual...

Meaningless comment and applies to a point on the ground and in time. It is not a universal truth by any means. Ground can be owned when necessary and...

Not a Carl Gustaf equivalent but rather an M20 rocket launcher equivalent. Like the M20, unwieldy and not too accurate.

The LAW was reloadable also though the intent was to toss it after use. It...

operate like that. The bad news is that too many do...

The scary thing is that the system knows it and tacitly encourages it.

BS and time in service too often substitute for just simple...

Shovels? DIGGING? Yeck... :D

Used to work in the Army...

It's not a problem; with a MG Platoon, 1st Sqd generally goes with 1st Platoon, 2d with the 2d, etc. if it's decided to put the guns with Platoons, thus there is a...

The Machine Gunner MOS left in 1954 to become just another 11B. Now they've foolishly done away with the 11M and said Bradley riders are 11Bs. They aren't, totally different mentality. Agree the...

The quest for quality does complicate life, does it not. Lights are for wimps. ;)

We gots a new tripod on the way -- still no 6400 mil but note the weight! :D