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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Bayonet strength refers to the number of riflemen available, not fixing bayonets for combat.
Would you? You've got a bunker buster but you're facing a bayonet charge.
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Then we are already in deep **** and no amount of men is going to stop the bayonet charge. If we cannot take the bayonet charge out with the arty, we are really in deep **** whether we have the men or not.
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You have 6 sniper teams with radios and the enemy is doing a recee by fire.
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Recee by fire means going in with a company strength or a platoon strength? And it means probing with arty barraging or just aimlessing shooting at random picked areas? I have a hard time visualising recee by fire.
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You're barraging an entire area but the enemy birds are already looking at you. See your problem? You've gotten way too specialized not to be able to handle other threats.
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If the enemy birds can see me, well it means that my air force or AD is not doing their jobs of protecting my arty. Yes there is a danger of becoming too specialised but there is also a danger of not being specialised to meet the oncoming threat. I am saying that there is a balance that we need to reach. Of course the hard part is figuring out what the hell is the balance. That comes from experience and training and skills which I have absolutely zero.
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In the final analysis, no matter how vaunted the support, how advance the fire, hpw long the reach, all of these things are to allow a rifleman to finally plant his boot on the ground. If his boots ain't on the ground, then all of these assets are for nothing.
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Right, I am only advocating those that will help the boots to be on the ground, especially among the peaks without sacrificing a battalion's manpower strength.