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Old 07-17-2014, 12:24 PM   #45
Polydamas
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Artillery (and Forward Observer)

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
When do you use Gunner or Guns with mortars or light mortars, then?

My actual real life experience with insurgent mortars is different. Captured insurgent mortar gear in Iraq includes some very sophisticated (especially compared to the gear we had!) fire direction gear; specifically smart-phones and tablets running high-end commercial ballistic software. ...

I personally found the FDC chief's billet to be the most rewarding and challenging thing I ever did in the infantry. ...
Posts like that are the main reason I hang around this forum: smart people who know about different nerdy things than I do.

Where to divide skills definitely depends on culture (eg. the fine divisions of Law or History make sense from the late 19th century onwards, but not in earlier societies; artillery organization was very different in 1918 than in 1815).
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