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Senior Sgts Flip Side
Guys;
I was lucky during my time in SF in that I learned "the trade" from some of the finest team sergeants that ever took to the field. What I did was based on what I was taught by the older, more experienced people in SF.
In the early 80s MSG C. Wesley, "Wes", was our team sergeant. We had just finished another boring field problem at Ft Irwin and were back in our barracks. The OPFOR team never touched us.
The company still had three teams in the field and that night Wes told the company commander that our team could hit all three teams within 24 hours. The commander wanted to know if the time started in the morning and Wes said no right now. The commander said go ahead and we started planning. The teams were all located somewhere north of the compound. We had no inside information just that all three were in an area about 20k x 30K.
We went over the maps, came up with a plan and hit the road well before first light in one 2 1/2 ton truck. Nothing fancy. Find the first team, fire it up with a few blanks and move on to the next and so on.
We hit the first team by 0900, the second around noon but the third was alittle harder and it took us to around 1700 to find them.
Wes is still kickin' and just got back from the sand box a few months ago.
Pete
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