Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
If I were king, the patrol base would only be there for discrete re-arm/refit/reset purposes. Patrols go out and remain out, with resupply and maintenance conducted forward, not aboard the PB. That's what your combat trains are for, but after six years of FOB life, we've lost that skill to a great degree.
To what extent do guys here think that the FOB mentality is an inheritance from peace-keeping in the Balkans? These ideas of "Force Protection" somehow became mingled with tactics and became "the way we've always done it." It seems to me to be the absolute antithesis of infantry tactics to spend one's nights on an FOB and commute to war in vehicles using the same routes day after day.