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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (31986)	6/10/2002 6:02:13 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) of 281500

calling fire down upon yourselves when in danger of being overrun, you'd rather have artillery performing that mission rather than aircraft dropping Napalm or a ton of HE on your position.. both artillery and tacair now have excellent anti personnel rounds for that mission. I'm sure you can provide an extensive discussion on the firebase strategy and how we were able to orchestrate round the clock fire missions on large stretches of Vietnam. What I wonder is whether we should revisit the "firebase" strategy in some of these Afghani areas. Bagran air base is similar to the large fire bases at Mary Lou, Dak To, and Phu Bai. the rvn strategy of very small bases over extended areas never worked real well due to lack of sufficient artillery units to deploy. most of the small bases were outside the fan most of the time and relied on intermittent air support. afghani is much different...mainly because the guys we are after are from different countries and not so easily hidden in the masses. and because the lack of vegetation coupled with our new era sensing equipment makes any movement for them very difficult.

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