This is the worst topic on AWRM.
We (the militia) are NOT AT ALL murderers. We do not kill our own for ANY reason. This freaky weirdo Earl3 is just plain weird. Glad he ain't around here no more.

Well said.

Ditto

Wow, what a sickening thread.

Killing people, mercy shootings, leaving your family behind.

WTF is going on in people's heads?

I guess the concept of caring about your fellow countrymen, or even family, escapes some sick people.

How can anyone expect to win a war dragging their family with them? Men have always gone off to war while the women and children stayed home. Women and children would make too much noise and slow you down if you took them with you. After they kill you they would kill your family too for aiding and abetting you. Anyone who does not realize this is in denial, needs to stop living in dream world, and wake up to reality.

Bug out to a rear operating base (ROB), build some hasty defensive positions, leave the rear-echelon mother fuckers (REMFs) to man the defensive positions, monitor the radios, run the rear-operating base, and most importantly, guard the families. Then the operators (those physically able to run-&-gun and trained to do so effectively) move out to establish a forward-operating base (FOB) considerably closer to the action. Then the operators conduct combat operations from the FOB. Meanwhile, the REMFs back at the ROB are continuosly improving upon those hasty defenses initially constructed. So when the operators finally come back to the ROB for a break, what was a fox hole when they left will now be a completely camouflaged bunker. The REMFs are also training any new recruits that might show up, and doing any other duties they may have around the ROB.

The main thing is that the operators know that their wives and daughters are safe and in good hands 'back at the ranch' while they're out raiding an enemy outpost at 2am in the pouring down rain.

This is not necessarily any unit's plan, but I do believe that it is a good one.

I like it

That is a good plan that can work but the rear operating base could be discovered and the enemy could just drop mortar rounds in on them. The REMFers need to also keep them all ready to bug out at all times with escape routes planned and fall back positions set up too.

I dearly love women but there will always be more women to be had so I don't get so sentimental over any one woman that I could not kiss her good bye if I needed to.

Mortars, artillery, MLRS, helicopter launched missiles, drone launched missiles, bombs, cruise missiles.....

Which means whatever it is you are doing is worth at least a battalion level effort (of which there are less than 200 in the force structure + some special operators), because that is the unit size that has access to those resources.

Not exactly a battalion after you. Whoever it is will have access to those resources, just like any other squad or platoon in the US military does.

Even the Iraqi Hajjis have plenty of mortars.

I don't think things have changed that much since I was a BN S-3 and ASST BDE S-3, where except for SF, those missions have to go through the BN FSO - even to get fire from the BN HHC mortar PLT. (exception for certain CAV TRP TO&E)

Even if it is only a squad coming after you, the rest of the company can't be far behind, and that company can't operate independent of the BN logistics tail.

My point is that it is good to have an AO where those kinds of units won't go without substantial effort.