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My name is First Lieutenant rob Hepburn .

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I'm a platoon leader with Bull Troop ,

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First Squadron , second Cavalry

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Regiment . The objective of this

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training is to familiarize our squads

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with firing with live rounds . The

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object of this support by fire was to

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provide suppression on this village so

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that the decisive operation could move

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into the village and clear it . Getting

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online quickly , especially when

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dismounting from the vehicles is

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extraordinarily important because uh

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the enemy can hear the vehicles

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approaching from a considerable

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distance , especially when you have a

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vehicle drop off . The enemy is either

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already firing upon you or very quickly

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preparing to do so . So getting out of

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the vehicles and immediately engaging

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and providing that suppression to get

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their heads down is the only way that

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you can stay safe . In an actual

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mission .

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Communication between the gunner and

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the assistant gunner is key . The

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gunner is there to shoot the targets ,

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but the assistant gunner is there to

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help them controlling rates of fire and

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taking directions from the squad leader .

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So keeping that assistant gunner close

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and or preferably on time , Top of the

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gunner allows them to communicate even

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while 40 Bravo or Lima is shooting ,

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they get loud . So keeping those

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communications efficient quick and

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precise in order to close with and

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destroy the enemy .

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Six

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1234 .

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So the communication between the two

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gun teams to talk the guns is how we

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ensure we don't spend all of our ammo ,

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immediately sustained fire fights can

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last some time and we don't bring a

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million rounds . So in order to use

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just a single Ubl in an iteration , the

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squad leader is working to establish

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rates of fire and he's telling the two

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guns to switch off . Um So you know

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that the guns are doing well when they

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both run out of ammo at about the same

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time , that means they're maintaining a

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similar rate of fire and hopefully it's

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the rate of fire that the squad leader

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was asking them to produce .

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So with second cavalry regiment being

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striker infantry , especially striker

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infantry equipped with the DVD , the

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dragoon , we bring a lot more to the

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fight with our weapons squad than you

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would in a light infantry . The

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strikers have 50 cow , they have

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javelins , they have another 2 40

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the main cannon on the dragoon which is

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a 30 millimeter cannon . So instead of

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the weapons squad coming there and just

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using 22 forties plus some 84 some

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javelins , they were able to use a

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third to 40 along with an M 2 50

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caliber machine gun and they would be

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able to use the main cannon on the

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dragoon which gives them significantly

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more suppression and the ability to

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take down many more and much stronger

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vehicles .

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All in all , it's been a it's been a

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great training and everyone's learned a

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lot and hopefully we are more lethal

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and more decisive unit in the future