RE: [SG] Scenario with engineers

Thanks for the acknowledgement.  Having been a 19D, and a 19D BNCOC
grad, there 
is not much Scouts don't do.  Being an Armor officer (Cavalry Specialty)
for 13 
years (active and reserve) there is not much that I have not seen or
been 
called to do in the area of Combined Arms, and even Combat Service
Support.

Michael Brown
Who has @18 drills to go.

-----Original Message-----
From:	John M. Atkinson [SMTP:john.m.atkinson@erols.com]
Sent:	Friday, December 04, 1998 1:50 AM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	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