RE: Obstacles, Part 3

What you say sounds good.  Maybe a little SGish.  We never taped them
together.  We did a side by side comparison of a picket with a bangalore
and found the bangalore to be better.  What amazed me the most was how
the wire still hung around.  Not enough to stop someone but enough to to
channel troops into single file.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jatkins6@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 12:19 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: Obstacles, Part 3
> 
> You wrote: 
> 
>  move >and clear option given to engineers that I found fault in.  I 
> would >think along the lines of giving engineers greater ability to 
> clear stuff >over standard infantry.	Probably around double.  My 
> 
> Ah.  I shall rethink that one.  Perhaps allow infantry to breach a
> foot 
> lane, taking another activation to improve it to a vehicle lane, but
> an 
> engineer unit automatically clears a vehicle lane?
> 
> >Speaking of pickets, have you ever done this: it is a sort of 
> improvised >bangalore.
> 
> Yup!	What we usually do is duct-tape two pickets together with C-4 
> packed in.  We used 13 packages (1.25 lbs ea) of C-4.  Cool, but a bit
> 
> unwieldy to hump for a couple klicks.  It also has a tendency to make
> a 
> bit of a crater if you over-do it.  More than 13 packages is overkill.
> 
> John M. Atkinson
>