actually the thing i like about the way the air assault brigade
is the way they land driectly on the objective and attack. they
rely alot on air support and artillery fire. in sg, we land far n
walk there. the unit that we were attached to were called
wolfhounds. the JRTC span ard 13 to 15 days and we were involved in
three different scenarios. the enemies(op4s) were very
professional. they were a paratrooper unit station in fork polk.
they actually inserted 3 days into the area of ops to set up their
defence against us. they operate in small grps or section. very
fast n agile. caches of ammos n food were found hidden by them. in
a town that they defended, they actually set up 300 rolls of con
wires. in sg, we cut white tapes to simulate. in US, u r expected
to cut the con wires to breech. i also like the way that you
actually see cooperation of actual armour (bradleys n M1A1) n
aircrafts throughout the exercise. A-10 attack aircrafts were
dropping flares above at nite, also got to see B1 bombers. my oc
had a light attack copter for close air support while 2 sections
were combing an area where suspected op4s were spotted by the
copter. we also saw russian aircrafts that were operated by the
op4s during the mission.
in the wallaby i went to in 2000, although we had all these
elements, but armour n airforce had their own exercise. imagine
while engagin a possible tank target, we had to ask umpire if it
was the correct target as the tanks were actually landrovers n
tonners with light sticks. umpire ask us to see the color of light
stick, our response was that our nvg n nighthawks can only see
green n nothin else. in the end umpire had to coms other side to
ask. hahaaa.
i do hope to see more cooperation between the different units
during atual exercise. so did anyone went to the most recent
wallaby? has it changed much? but can't blame SAF as the US army
has the largest budget in the world.
