Re: Manuever warfare was:Anti-Tank guns
From: Los <los@c...>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:41:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Manuever warfare was:Anti-Tank guns
John M. Atkinson wrote:
> Los wrote:
>
> > now. Every branch is always trying to prove how they have the
biggest
> > dick (ask John the engineer <grin>), and this is the artillery
branches
> > way of doing it.
>
> Hey, now. While it's true the Engineers are just about the greatest
> thing since Sargon the Great invented organized warfare, I've always
> said that we're here to support the infantry. Or to handle what the
> Infantry can't, to put things another way. :) I'd no more want to go
> off and fight the "obstacle battle" in isolation from the maneuver
> commanders than I'd want to try to swim the Pacific.
I was just kidding and I draw no infernece between outstanding Engineer
support and the artillery sitiuation.
Los