Steve Hawley wrote:
Sure
Dug em, including w/ 18" of overhead cover and grenade sumps at either end of the fighting position. Always nicer working if you've got pioneer tools and some pallets of Class IV to help you setting in your defense.
Inspected a lot more of em. Checking for: interlocking fields of fire; range cards properly done; grazing fire for crew served weapons walked off and true; FPF lines covered by wire obstacles; dead space covered by M203s and TRPs for company mortars. Protective wire obstacles strung at hand grenade range.
Been under indirect fire (mortar and rocket) many many times. Always nice to have a bunker to duck into.
On our crappy little FOB in Iraq we'd rigged a shower out of a old KBR singlewide we'd scrounged *cough, stole--but that's NCO business* We had a black water tank on the roof gravity feeding to the showers and sinks down below. Boy Howdy did that water get hot. One morning I was taking a shower and I could hear something that sounded like hammering on the side of the shower trailer. I thought it was the guys working till one of my NCOs ducked into the shower to tell me we were under direct fire assault and those were 7.62 rds coming thru the side of the shower trailer down by the sinks! Ran for the bunker wearing nothing but flip flops and a towel. Quit a little fight till we dialed up an Apache weapons team from Balad who hosed em down and made short work of that problem set.
Q: When do you stop working on improving your defensive fighting position(s)?
A: Never. You never stop working on improving it until you move to the next one and start all over again.
This what I'm talking about!
Imagine my surprise after years of doing this that there's thing called a CEE...
go figure
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