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Keysersoze
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Make sure you drop it in the right area S-2........I have heard tell of Arty being dropped in the wrong place......
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"I have heard tell of Arty being dropped in the wrong place......"
You presume to know our true targets. You forget the budget battle. Culling is occasionally required.
Artillery fights your battles and it's own. As such, explosive we may be but we move in nefarious ways.
All is not as it seems...
Still, we remain your one-stop, on call, 24/7, all-weather conduit to God's lightning and thunder.
Give us a call. Always ready to help...somebody
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"You presume to know our true targets. You forget the budget battle. Culling is occasionally required.
Artillery fights your battles and it's own. As such, explosive we may be but we move in nefarious ways.
All is not as it seems...
Still, we remain your one-stop, on call, 24/7, all-weather conduit to God's lightning and thunder.
Give us a call. Always ready to help...somebody
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fatman17
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Tankies or gunners it doesn't matter, both are inferior to the Infantry... you're just in denial
we watch your six mate! otherwise your azz is grass!
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Nobody more popular in a rifle platoon or tank company. All the smokes and pogey-bait galore so long as he's the man with the plan for that groovy on-call, all-weather, 24/7, wrath of Thor!
Done well and you can shoot from your cot or hammock.
Good land-line or radio w/batteries, binos, grease pencil, compass, map, peanuts, soda-pop and some lovely lines-of-sight always make for an enjoyable day.
...Oh! And some bullets to shoot and targets to shoot them at...
Yup. Life's good in the arty.
Done well and you can shoot from your cot or hammock.
Good land-line or radio w/batteries, binos, grease pencil, compass, map, peanuts, soda-pop and some lovely lines-of-sight always make for an enjoyable day.
...Oh! And some bullets to shoot and targets to shoot them at...
Yup. Life's good in the arty.
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After having artillery from my own side dropped on my position by the wonderful arty boys, I have to say I would love to be a fighter pilot
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I wouldn't change a thing, even though getting to fly around in a very fast, shiny jet and only really having to press a button now and then does sound very tempting... (I assume that is all our esteemed fighter pilots do these days)
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Dad was Cav. I might and have often thought that the coolest combined arms element in our army was an armored cav troop (company sized for you Brits). Bradleys with dismounts, M1s and mortars all at your fingertips and at 35kph across open ground.
Sounded very cool.
Sounded very cool.
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Dad was Cav. I might and have often thought that the coolest combined arms element in our army was an armored cav troop (company sized for you Brits). Bradleys with dismounts, M1s and mortars all at your fingertips and at 35kph across open ground.
Sounded very cool.
Dude the magic of zooming around in a IFV gets old very quickly.....living outta a Bergan half the size as usual and bouncing around in a large bullet magnet.
Regards the arty Q I understand it was a basically a bunch of 120mm mortar rounds that dropped short.....Never found out why....
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MORTARS!!! And a bunch at that!!!
Damned infantry. Mistake in the mortar FDC it sounds to me. That's why a bunch fell there unless your F.O. adjusted the fire on top of you.
THAT would be really mean so I'm doubting such. 120mm, eh? Ouch.
Seriously, I pray that it turned out o.k.
Damned infantry. Mistake in the mortar FDC it sounds to me. That's why a bunch fell there unless your F.O. adjusted the fire on top of you.
THAT would be really mean so I'm doubting such. 120mm, eh? Ouch.
Seriously, I pray that it turned out o.k.
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Nobody more popular in a rifle platoon or tank company. All the smokes and pogey-bait galore so long as he's the man with the plan for that groovy on-call, all-weather, 24/7, wrath of Thor!
Done well and you can shoot from your cot or hammock.
Good land-line or radio w/batteries, binos, grease pencil, compass, map, peanuts, soda-pop and some lovely lines-of-sight always make for an enjoyable day.
...Oh! And some bullets to shoot and targets to shoot them at...
Yup. Life's good in the arty.
yeah! in the rear with the gear!
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yeah! in the rear with the gear!
That sounds bad. Really really bad.
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"yeah! in the rear with the gear!"
Dig it-totally.
"That sounds bad. Really really bad."
There's a reason I didn't branch transfer regardless of what my old man did for a living-Keysersoze is correct. I DO NOT want to run around a MODERN battlefield in a big target like a Bradley. Too big to hide and not heavy enough to live.
As an F.O for a mech unit in the attack there's not much you can do about it but mount up and know your pre-planned suppressive fire schedule. Short of that, it can be a groovy existance.
Gun batteries always live better than grunts or tankers. ALWAYS. We've a ton of excess hauling capacity and nothing goes to waste. Trust me. After a while in the boonies, running around and being sh!t on constantly loses it's appeal.
That's why I NEVER camp anymore. No way...
"Dig it-totally.
"That sounds bad. Really really bad."
There's a reason I didn't branch transfer regardless of what my old man did for a living-Keysersoze is correct. I DO NOT want to run around a MODERN battlefield in a big target like a Bradley. Too big to hide and not heavy enough to live.
As an F.O for a mech unit in the attack there's not much you can do about it but mount up and know your pre-planned suppressive fire schedule. Short of that, it can be a groovy existance.
Gun batteries always live better than grunts or tankers. ALWAYS. We've a ton of excess hauling capacity and nothing goes to waste. Trust me. After a while in the boonies, running around and being sh!t on constantly loses it's appeal.
That's why I NEVER camp anymore. No way...
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