ERIN Digital & Phone net Tuesday November 19, 2024; Go HERE for Current SOI
The Three Man Team We broke our team into four, three-man cells. We also had a HQ element and two sets of 81mm mortars with organic crews attached. Besides our indirect fire assets, we were armed only with M4 carbines and frag grenades.Ten days later we were being dressed down for the sin of rendering the battalion "combat ineffective" as well as destroying the TOC and killing most of the staff officers. All in all I found it to be a useful learning experience. Without violating any OPSEC, let me break down some of the lessons learned?..1) We spent the first few days avoiding contact and doing as much observation as possible. Whenever feasible we would use coded hand written messages left at a dead drop to pass information back to our HQ. Reason being that we believed the BLUFOR was actively scanning for our TX as well as attempting to DF us. This worked out rather well for us, as our flow of information went largely uninterrupted and we denied them any actionable SIGINT....
