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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:35 pm
by Shin Kenshiro
Curl up in a ball beneath my dead buddy and radio in for artillery on my position. I wouldn't blow claymores as I don't know if the enemy's already past me. Better to radio in the sitrep and call for some of God's Wrath.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:57 pm
by Jefffar
Lay low and tell the brass. Wait for instructions.
Probably would pull the pinn ou of a grenade and stuff it in an unobtrusive place on my person, so I'll explode if the gooks get me.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 3:20 pm
by Recon1
slowly, quietly enter my foxhole while observing the perimeter. Take a quick inventory of my partner, situation and equipment. Pull a grenade and throw it as far out and in front of the next perimeter foxhole nest so as not to allow them to see where the grenade came from but allow my team to be alerted. Then cover myself under the dead body and quietly listen with my .45 at the ready. It should turn into a fire fight from the surrounding fox holes. If not stay quiet so as not to give up my position and wait for day light.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:40 pm
by NMI
Play nice or I practice my sniper skills!
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:34 pm
by jedi078
Honestly in that situation I'd take care of my business inside or a few feet from the foxhole, making sure my buddy was awake.
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:41 pm
by NMI
A well thought out foxhole would have the grenade catching pits located on the bottom on either side.. I would have just done my business in that.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 12:46 am
by jedi078
The Deific NMI wrote:A well thought out foxhole would have the grenade catching pits located on the bottom on either side.. I would have just done my business in that.
Yes, properly made foxhole would have "grenade catching pits" (I forget what they really are called).
Now if you did roll/push a grenade where you did your business......
I sure those who have watched Band of Brothers (and I think the incident was in the book too) Easy Company returned to a fighting position to find there foxholes had been used as latrines, by the previous allied unit.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 12:47 pm
by Jefffar
It's called a sump.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 1:18 pm
by Recon1
The statement was:
You leave your LRRP lp/op outside the wire to "take care of buisness." Sliding back in the foxhole you find your buddy garroted.
The fact is given that you left. Right or wrong you left. Now what?
Your partner is dead! What do you do? Not what should you have done?
How do you let the others know of this situation w/o giving away the fact you are still alive. Lucky Bastard!
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:57 pm
by jedi078
Jefffar wrote:It's called a sump.
Thanks been a long time since MCT, and during my time as an AAV crewman I didn't dig a fighting hole for my AAV, the engineers did.
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:10 am
by Jefffar
I imagine if the crew had to dig their AAV a foxhole there'd be a rush on transfers to the Navy.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:19 am
by Rockwolf66
haveing known a former LRRP member I would have to say that you would be ducking the steel ball berings from a claymore before the enemy made it into the op of the night. Those units took their survival very seriously.
the 55 to 1 bodycount indicates how serious the LRRP members were about their own survival.