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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Typically speaking, you're not allowed to return fire unless directly aimed fire upon. Very easy to get around that. All fire are aimed fire. Most often, it's not the RoEs that's the problem but the amount of force you're allow to bring into a theatre. Yes, you might be armed but when you have a 9mm and the other guy got an anti-tank gun, you're not doing anything but getting the hell out of there and then report the bastard.
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Exactly what happened in Kosovo in 2004 the place expolded anyone and everyone was a traget UN & NATO combined. On patrol we had small caliber and 1 x mounted 50 Caliber on a semi armoured jeep and 1 or 2 APC were thre in total 5 vehicles as I remember. In this case many a times we didnt know who the hell was firing and at who some case at us some cases at each other and we were sometimes in the middle or on the sides and everyone took pot shots at us.
In the end after a RPG missed a Swedish APC everyone (us) basically ran from there and reported the incident. Everyone in the APC was sweating buckets, those who saw the round coming and miss atleast.
The French had some bad times in the North at that time and saw quite some action