I'm currently on staff duty, so I'm going through some old threads that I have missed.
I was at JRTC working with some British SAS who were attached to us, and we did numerous live fires. We did the same thing. Well it got to be a joke to see how many trees we could knock down. After about 13 pine trees met there maker, our OC's told us not to do it anymore, because range control was bitching.
Heck we even blew down a small trees using all the extra blasting caps taped around the base.
On a completely differant tangent, the SAS Sgt Maj told us to not initiate an ambush with the claymore, . When I asked him why, he said that after the claymore's go off, the smoke and dust obscure the kill zone. He wanted us to initiate with the machine gun, and save the claymores for the end. His experience was Africa (real world). Anybody, have any opinions on this?