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This is a personal war story of an event which happened to me when I was a Fire Support Officer in the US Army. This is the kind of story that all of our military ring customers have to tell and goes into the fond memories file.
Back in the day when our armored task force was training at the National Training Center in California we were tasked to conduct a defensive operation. We were expecting the enemy to attack through a certain area which he did. We had set up a screening force whose only job was to fire a few shots at him to slow him down and then skedaddle back to the area where we wanted to fight him.
This worked fine except for the fact that one of my Fire Support Teams decided that he didn’t want to break off contact and run. That was all well and noble but the problem was that when he was killed in his one man fight (he did actually cause some enemy casualties) the maneuver team which he was attached to lost all of their artillery support. We needed him to stay alive so that he could continue to call in artillery and air strikes and do more damage that way.
I wanted to chew off a piece of his rear end but I never did. Every time I thought of the bravery of his actions I couldn’t do it. http://www.militaryringexpress.com
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