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BoaterTalk: The International Information Site for the Whitewater Paddler
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Bullshit! it's an urban environment. how the hell are you going to avoid moving through areas with rooftops...
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SNOWWRESTLER. tell me about Palau
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rroberts
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This should get the cavers' attention
Stifler
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Unflattering info about Col. Chesty Puller in there too.
Stifler
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Yes. Puller was very good at the battalion level, but not at the division level...
rroberts
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"Goodbye Darkness" is good too. by Manchester. However, Puller's personal courage was unquestioned...
rroberts
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It's a pity that his skill at small scale warfare seems to have disappeared from the normal training of modern troops.
Wilko
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The Corps still emphasises small unit tactics, but there are only 3 divisions.
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rroberts
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That's what they might say, but in reality there isn't much emphasis on small unit tactics.
Wilko
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No. You are incorrect. The Corps basic unit is the fireteam. 4 or 5 guys. That's the building brick...
rroberts
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And they were getting very heavy casualties in Falluja, simply because they failed to use those fireteams effectively.
Wilko
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Jul 25 2008, 13:58 GMT
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...unless you take the Dresdin approach.
and if they did THAT, you'd be the first in line screaming about the bloodthirsty Americans
and war-crimes.
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You can call bullshit all you want, that doesn't make you right. Exactly because there are rooftops...
Wilko
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OK. Lots of buildings. do you leap from roof top to roof top? helio assault?...
rroberts
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The problem is that they are not going through each house. And there again, if they did...
rroberts
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Rick, cut that out!
Wilko
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ain't buying it...
rroberts
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That's the umptieth time you've talked about "Dresdin". What on earth is Dresdin? Please fille me in...
Wilko
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Dresden, Germany, was firebombed by the Allies in World War II resulting in large numbers of civilian casualties
Gordo
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Yeah, I thought that he might have meant that, but there was no battle, no tactics, just bombing of civilians.
Wilko
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