Re: Tank Commanders

For some anecdotal bits on TC's, read Rory's stories (area 4- misc.) at:
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/index.html

Rand.

At 01:54 AM 4/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
>The tank commander (assuming he is, as
>someone pointed out) just the vehicle
>commander, has several principal tasks:
>
>1) locating and prioritizing threats to the tank
>- usually this would include other armour as a
>primary threat, infantry and other AFVs as a
>secondary threat
>2) directing the combat action of the tank
>(providing direction to the driver and gunner
>and spotting for the gunner)
>3) taking direction from the external
>commander of the tank element
>4) taking direction from other external authority
>5) providing a higher level of SA than a
>commander-less tank could normally have
>(maybe this aspect goes away once we get
>advanced synthetic environments, maybe not)
>
>T.
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