a_majoor said:The Int cell could be co located with the Recce Pl to process stuff faster as well. I think Recce and perhaps the snipers would be better located with HQ Coy, so the commander can have these assets at his finger tips, so to speak.
yup.HitorMiss said:Recce PL fall's under OC Combat Support Coy, however this is just for Admin purposes only, while deployed Recce is the BG asset and is moved around at the whim of the BG CO or even higher then him, Snipers as well fall under this arrangement. It's an admmintstarive move only for ease not for operations. This arrangement works just fine
yupvon Garvin said:Seen. Problem with the manning (to man bayonets at the expense of 81mm of RDX raining from the sky is beyond me, but...) those "hollow battalions" are just as hollow as they were with the support platoons. With no option but to remain with the boneheads, more and more soldiers are OT'ing than before (as far as I can tell).
PPCLI Guy said:Methinks Pioneers will be back sooner rather than later...
This isn't about pipes with nails in them, or boards with nails in them. It's not about tools. It's about structure and form.Gunnerlove said:There are enough mortars for everyone. Arty should have mortars as should the infantry. Hell they are just a pipe with a nail in it. This should not be us trying to take something away from each other, but us trying to get what we need to do our jobs.
now, you're just talking crazy! We do that, and how does everyone get their tick in the box for PDRs, and hang on to their mini-empires?von Garvin said:To sum up, it seems as though we are trying to find a form or structure for the TF when deployed, and it seems as though the more we modify the "Advance with Purpose, lead with sensors, overmatch with long range precision effects and exploit with infantry" model to one that actually works, the more we seem to be adapting to a model that was proven in battle and modified due to emerging technologies. In other words, a TF (or battle group) of four rifle companies, augmented by a squadron of tanks, a squadron of combat engineers and a battery of guns, and supported integrally by platoons of close recce patrolmen, snipers, pioneers, and dare I say it, of TOW and Mortars. The only real difference is the pushing down from Brigade level asset to Battle group asset of the Recce Squadron.
abso-fuckin'-utely!von Garvin said:Cbt Spt Coy, hands down.
Given current ops, would your Cbt Sp Coy spend more time acting as a Rifle Coy or doing the Cbt Sp "thing"?von Garvin said:IF you are in a place where mortars, TOW missiles and our friends the Dirty necks aren't needed (Cyprus, for example), you have some 200 trained riflemen you can re-roll (they are all infantrymen, remember)
A fourth rifle coy cannot "up arm" to mortars, pioneers, etc. if that is needed