[b]Not actually screw up :
A) Was posted to 21SA (SP Mortar) as a TA during my NS time. We had
our first BN ex. and it was a reverse ex. i.e. action during the
night time and plan/rest in the day time. After 4 days and 3 nights
ex, we were practically exhausted so we were extremely glad to hear
ex cut on the last morning. So all happily check equipment, load up
into our M113 and drove all the way back to camp.
While we were bathing, we saw one of our TA happened to have just
returned. He was stills sleeping when the ex was cut and we
literally forgotten about him.
He had to flag a cab along the main road to come back to camp.
Luckily his rifle was with us in the M113. Imagine what would
happened if he were to flagged down a cab with his M16 with
him.
Some what screw up :
A) I was the FDC TA and during one of our FATEP, the FO called for
linear target on enemy convoy. After initial shot, adjustment came
in and I was busying keying the adjustment into the HP41
calculator. After FFE, the FO called to check our firing data. It
appears that instead of linear target, the shots landed in L shape.
It was found that during one of the adjustment, I enter left 50
instead of right 50.
STILL USING HP41C, YOU MUST BE VERY OLD
BATCH, IT HAD BEEN CHANGE TO SHARP MANY MANY YEARS.
BY THE WAY, THE FDC SAFTY OFFICER MUST BE COCK, ENTER L INSTEAD OF
R WOULD NOT CAUSE THE LINEAR TGR TO BECOME L SHAPE FOR BTY LEVEL.
EVEN IF IS DELTA TGT, HOW COULD THE BTY DATA SAME AS THE FDC DATA,
UNLESS BTY ALSO HEARD WRONG FO's ORDER OR THE FDO WAS VERY FUCKING
CONFIDENCE THAT HIS FIRING DATA WAS CORRECT INSTEAD OF THE BTY
CP(THIS GO TO THE FDC SAFTY OFFICER). ANY WAY, THIS COULD HAPPEN
USING THE 41C, IF SHARP CACULATOR,THE BTY WOULD NOT ABLE TO FIRE
EVEN FDC INSIST THEIR DATA WAS CORRECT, CAUSE BTY PCS WOULD NOT GET
THE RERSPECTIVE LINER & ELEVATION FROM THE CP, IT SIMPLE CAN
NOT TALLY AT ALL, CAUSE ALL THE TMPC/TGPC IS PART OF THE PROGRAM IN
THE SHARP INSTEAD OF THE HP41C.
B) Was attached to another arty unit to manned their OP for their
lima foxtrot. After settling down on the OP, the ex was carried on
as planed. Then the FO called out on coordinate that caught my
attention, that idiot FO was calling the coordinate of our OP
location!!
[color=yellow]THIS IS COMMON, THIS FO
MUST BE GREEN HORN & UNDER TAKEN FROM THE
TESTER[/color]
C) Didnt happened to me but heard from my other battery guys.
During one the battery live firing ex, one of the round went
erratic and landed into the Johor Straits. Whats more, some goon
safety party who was on a boat cross the border and was detained by
the Malaysia coast guards. Not a good day for that battery.
[color=green]NO SUCH THING AS ERRATIC
ROUND COULD LAND IN JOHOR. SAF IS VERY KAISU, ALL FIRING LOCATION
WILL NOT HAVE ANY CHANGE AT ALL OUT OF THE RANGE SO SUCH. THE ONLY
REASON IS EITHER WRONG FIRING DATA OR MOTAR SIGHT SET WRONG
ELEVATION OR LINE AND MISS BY THE SAFTY OFFICER CHECK. THIS HAPPEN
TO MY UNIT AS WELL. DURING 1 OF THE CASH ACTION, ROUND WAS OUT BY
3KM, LATER FOUND OUT THAT LINE WAS SET WRONGLY CAUSE THE BRO READ
WRONGLY FROM THE COMPASS.[/color]
D) Happened during another FATEP, one of the battery was task for
the fire mission. All went well until we heard someone shouting
fanatically from one of the M113. The mortar man almost loaded the
round with the percussion cap down first.
[color=brown]THIS COULD BE HAPPEN AS
WELL, DO HAVE SADDY TESTER KEPT ON PUSHING TO THE EXTREM LIMIT THAT
5 DAYS EXERCISE ONLY HAD 4 HOURS OF SLEEP FOR THE
CP.[/color]
