By the time I was an E-3 I had not only read it but owned a copy, as well as 7-8, Ranger Handbook, the operational symbols one, Airborne Operations, Air Assault Operations, and that's not to mention the 100 or so correspondence courses I took.
This is one of the big reasons I hate it when people want to get down on infantryman. It is not easy to be a grunt and the depth and breadth of knowledge needed to do it successfully is incredible. Memorize the five line op order, call for fire, 9 line medivac, movement techniques, all the other skill level 1,2 and 3 tasks (chemical nuclear and biological warfare stuff, weapons stuff, uniform stuff) also the legal side, conventions and treaties I mean the list of crap you have to learn goes on and on. -----Original Message----- From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:51 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: UK's troops being seized.. What Private has read that manual? I was talking about the practical, tactical intel a Private knows. That is stuff the bad guys could really use. When I was driving I got regular movement briefings for the entire battalion with Top. He needed the information, so by extension I needed it too. I might not have remembered it all, but it would have been useful for the enemy to know that the battalion would start moving north on Hwy 1 from Hwy 190 to new firing points at 0500 hrs on April 4, 2007. I usually got that sort of information 12 to 24 hours before the actual movement order was issued. In this case the standard tactical SOP was for the advanced party to move out along the same basic route 60 to 90 minutes prior to the movement. Putting the 2 pieces together would allow the enemy to find the advanced party and ambush the batteries as they moved into the new firing points. >Standard tactical stuff is meaningless. How much of that is standard >SOP stuff in books that anyone can buy at Amazon or Ebay? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231944 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
