On the other hand, the ability of an M-1 to sneak through the woods could always be counted upon to surprise the infantry. We actually took a section of four M-1s up on of Hohenfels razor-back ridges and sat on top, looking down into an infantry battalion as they prepared an anti-armor ambush for our squadron.
We sat up there, laughing our arses off, as the umpires drove around and "god-gunned" just about every vehicle that battalion. Gotta love simulated artillery!
At the end, when the umpires revealed to the PBI that they had been under direct observation by tanks. The LTC screamed that there were no tanks to his front...the look on his face when we crashed through the trees upslope and to his rear was a true Kodak moment!
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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