Re: Infanty TO&E was[DS and SG] Regt's of the Crown

John M. Atkinson wrote:

>
>
> Hrm.	I note you include an organic Engineer platoon.  Is US only army
> that doesn't do this?  I note that both the Canadians and the Aussies
on
>

Haa! I knew you'd ding me on this as soon as I wrote it down. And yes I
agree with your
the Eng should be seperate (note: that I added them in as attachmenst at
the Bn TF
level) so nix the Eng. squad and give me a pair of sniper teams. I would
defer to all
your assessments on things, engineer. I do think though tat the same ENg
platoon
shoudlalways be farmed out to eth same bn in order to establish a good
working
relationship.

> t[1]F*ck You Buddy, I'm Detached.  IOW, "I'll take my assets and go
back
> to the rear and scrounge some coffee while you do this your own damn
> self 'coz you're too stupid to take advice on how use us properly."
> Which I've been part of once.
>

I've been there, done that. YEars 3 and 4 of my army carrer saw myself
as a Remote
sensor specialist. Our team of 3 guys was farmed out to line bns along
with two GSR
temnan (Ground Surveillance radars) Bn s-2s had very funky ideas about
what to do with
sensors (Gee go bug the enemy bn's TOC) so we found ourselves in the
occassional pissing
contest (WHy it's important to have a stable working relationship w/ the
host bn.)

>
> Not that I'm parochial or anything. . .

I know, you are just looking out for the best interests of the MOS....