Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lIf you're the 55th
typewriter repair battalion and you find youself
conducting MP operations in Iraq, your still the 55th typewriter repair
battalion. If you're a tank platoon form 1/2 armored bn and you find
yourself in Iraq driving Hummers on LOC security patrols your still a
mech
tank platoon from the 1/2d armored bn. That doesn't mean an M1114 is
considered a "tank" or "tank support".

Heck you've got tankers being used as dismounts. Mission dictates.

On 11/28/05, Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@telia.com> wrote:
>
> Glenn wrote:
>
> >Oerjan Ariander wrote:
> >
> > > You were talking about ARMOURED support above. Generally speaking,
> > > trucks and helos aren't considered to be "armoured support" -
although
> > > I've noticed that the US Army now calls a platoon of 4xM1114
armoured
> > > HumVees a "motorized tank platoon", so maybe the requirements to
count
> > > as "armoured" are being softened nowadays <g>
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >I would like to see your source for this comment.  Not that I doubt
you
> as
> >to it be said I just...doubt the source's IQ.
>
> My source: several articles in Armor Magazine over the past year,
mostly
> ones where "motorized tank" units in Iraq describe how they
re-organized
> to
> make the best out of limited assets
>
> (BTW Glenn, your posts are *heavily* formatted. Please re-set to
"plain
> text" if at all possible!)
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ariander@telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
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