In message , ArtKramr
writes
Subject: Radio - foul language
From: "Paul J. Adam"
Date: 2/9/04 3:08 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Depends on timescales. If you're calling in a fire mission from a
battery in direct support, or reporting a hot contact... the enemy will
gain nothing from intercepting and translating your radio messages. They
already know that Our Guys are fighting Their Guys at grid 123987, the
spooks get told to clear the net for useful messages

Slower time? That's what BATCO is for, painful though it may be to use.

Radio silence. Above all radio silence. Only guys on their first mission and
scared to hell blurt over the command radio. And are so severely disciplined
on landing that they will never do it again.

Different roles and missions, Art. Radio chatter is a no-no (even if on
exercises, platoon commanders would send "Three-zero, this is one-zero,
fetch Sunray... three-zero alpha, 0898" which was the cue to "drop a
megahertz and chat" - done as a peacetime luxury, and not allowable in
combat) but while we wanted radio _discipline_, having patrols and OPs
out required that radio _silence_ be broken.

After all, if your job is advanced scout to spot the enemy's attack,
will your commander thank you for maintaining radio silence if the
enemy's tanks arrive before the runner you sent back with a handwritten
message?

The radio's there to be used: not one word more than necessary, but
every necessary word.


--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk