Re: Cage Rattling and Mindless Pratling

 I played in a Harpoon scenario at HISTORICON a couple of years ago with
very much the same sort of set-up, only it was Chinese destroyers
playing
hide-and-seek with Vietnamese missile boats amongst a whole bunch of
fishing
boats and a couple of freighters. Very fun and challenging scenario.
----- Original Message -----
From: "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Cage Rattling and Mindless Pratling

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomb" <tomb@dreammechanics.com>
>
> > [Tomb] And every army has some of them, and some that aren't so hot.
This
> is just same old same old.
>
> Certainly true. I've a fair number of both in the Bundeswehr, too. And
heard
> stories... Like the one about the NCO who went out to check if the
guys on
> night guard (with live ammo) duties were up to scratch, and didn't
answer
> when they challenged him....
>
> While we are exchanging war stories. I was in the Luftwaffe. During a
> ground-defence exercise, my Unteroffizier (red team) destroyed an
"enemy"
> headquarters all by himself: Took of his jacket with the red armband,
> carried it non-chalantly over his (full-length) rifle, went up to the
> guards, chatted them up, went in and started spraying the HQ with
> "bullets"...
>
> Or this one: Some time ago 'Hamburger Abendblatt' - my local paper -
> gleefully reported the
> exploit of a German missile craft squadron:
>
> During a recent NATO exercise off Corsica, a squadron of 6 German
missile
> boats pulled a fast one on a NATO task force of 50 mostly French,
Italian
> and Spanish vessels. In a night operation, the boats (including
'Frettchen',
> 'Dachs' and 'Sperber', most technically obsolete) imitated fishing
vessels,
> drifting slowly towards the task force. The task force ignored them
until
it
> was too late. The simulated attack 'sank' nine NATO vessels. The
spiffy
new
> French aircraft carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' took to its heels.
>
> Might make for on interesting FT scenario, too.
>
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz
>
>