more thoughts on all of this ..
I believe it is important to pursue this, so that we can understand the impact of fighting a war, any kind of war, with under-strength combat units and way too much over-head in the rear ( this is causing a lot of heart-burn right now with Rumsfeld and Co. thinking about putting "administrative-overhead-personnel" on the combat-front-line ...we are also not far from having a draft again.. )...it has a direct impact on morale, whether the war is "won" or not.. and a plethora of other factors...How many different 11 series MOSs were there when we over there ?
SuperScout : Our scout units in Cambodia ( we usually operated in 2 to 3 Company strength ( A, B, and C ...was there a D also ?) with The Battalion HQ folks ( and those giant tracks ) tagging along as well.. ) did a hell of a job and lost a lot of fine folks..for the first 3 weeks it was a confusing-free-for-all unlike anything we had ever seen ? I remember that one of the Recon Lts had a very small armored car sort of a thing ( about half the size of an M113 ... I want to say it was yellow or orange colored (?) ) that ran over a 155mm-or 175mm-artillery-booby-trapped-round and was vaporized.. Our track went by there about 10 mins later...very bad ju-ju...
IMHO
Larry
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