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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
I've always worried about how much we rely on shiny toys and artillery, the west has a great psychological hang up regarding casualties. Our tactics are based around the use of massed artillery and air power to eliminate the enemy on the ground so that the actually ground combat becomes little more than a mopping up exercise.
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Unless you're Australian. We don't get the shiny toys the US and even British get to play with. Our usual fire support (if we're lucky) is the Section GMPG and if we're REALLY lucky, a few 40mm HEDP.
Once in a blue moon we might get a little 81mm HE from the battalion mortar platoon, and
maybe once a lifetime we might see a couple of M113s giving fire support from their next hill with their .30 and .50 cals.
Try telling the youth of today that though. Think they'll believe you?
