| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people |
| Date: | Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:58:20 -0400 |
>And you're right there. But if a sniper wants to carry a secondary
>weapon, would a pistol or SMG really be as good as a GL? AFAIK, those
As a rule, you only need your bakcup if you are about to get stepped on.
Anyting else, and you have not been doing your job.
Combat is darwinian, what can I say.
>If you have a senior officer with info, men and the appropriate
Err....
In the West, we teach our sargents and grunts how to think.
>materiels at hand. Anyway, you're being too literal. A patrol stumbles
>across a sniper. Okay, so they don't go charging after him, they hunt
Well, if the sniper lets them "stumble across" him, he's srcewed up. His
options are to either engage or not engage. If they are likely to hit his
location, he should be booting out of there and thinking "don't see me, I'm
just a bush".
>cover and shoot to keep his head down while calling in support. Would
>THAT be how they'd operate?
One way of doing it, I supose. And while they wait for air or arty, I'm
getting the hell outta Dodge. Either than, or I blow the radio man's chest
out through his radio pack and then move onto other targets, but only if
I'm real confident in my position.
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
