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Originally Posted by S-2
" At the 15min 30 sec mark of your Assault/destruction fires you run out of bullets..."
And your Battalion commander, X.O. S-3, S-4, Bn FDO, Svc. Btry. Commander, Bn Ammo Plt. Ldr/ PSG didn't plan to pre-position for a program of that duration?
That's not the only M992A2 showing up at the Battalion ASP. The whole damn battalion's on the road looking for bullets. 
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Well hopefully, someone in the Fire support chain can talk the BDE out of a mission like that. Or the Bde-4 uses some common sense and shoots it down. Its a waste of ammo.
But how do you prep for a mission like that? Fill every 7 ton with ammo, and download as much as you can on the ground. But that leads to other problems.
You have shot up about 45 days of ammo in less than half an hour. I know, not as big a deal for you Army types. Until you have to sweet talk the Air Force into making your ammo a higher priority since you shot the dump almost dry and the normal log schedule no longer works and your sucking the LFORM dry.
But high RoF is sexy
And S-2 Killer Jr is way more fun to shoot that APERS-T. Only been able to do it for real twice. At least he isn't wanting us to shoot ICM in the wire.
Now the question of the day is, except for some terrain issues in the target area, Why would I want to shoot a 3-4 round Hi-Lo when I can shoot 1 DPICM/ICM for better effect and cover a larger area?
edit: Mentioning an officer billet (Bde S-4) and common sense in the same sentence. ROFLMAO. What was I thinking? Officers/common sense yea right. Present WAB company excluded of course