Re: [SG] Scenario with engineers

Actually, I just knee-jerked.  The point was that there are a lot of
MOSes which require a complex mix of skills (try Cav Scouts on for
size--those guys do, more or less, everything) under a great deal of
pressure.  Sure, infantry get shot at, but their biggest risk on the way
to a fight is a blister.  Aviation types could get flown into a hill if
their pilot is having a bad week.  Yeah, we all exist to get the
maneuver elements (infantry and armor) to the right place in good enough
condition to have a decisive effect.  But to say that pure gunbunnies
have more skills with worse consequences for failure is to overstate the
case.  Hell, even rear-echelon types aren't perfectly safe--even seen an
infuriated colonel holding a "discussion" with the REMF who fouled up
his pay?

John M. Atkinson