Reminds me of Jim Burton's comments in "The Pentagon Wars" about what gets kills in air combat. For all the fancy grids and radars and systems, some 80% of kills were made with "The Mark I Eyeball" system.
Burton advocated cheaper planes, the better to have more of them. Well, Jim's passed into retirement and then the grave, while they built the F-35 instead of his ideas.
Reminds me of one of my Dad’s friends who was a mortar-man in Korea. As a kid He once told me they “could drop a round in a garbage can.” I ran into him a decade later when I was in Camp Lejeune and he was reliving his USMC days.
Thanks for the interesting article. I really enjoyed the first hand experiences that it shared and the useful insight into mortar tactics.
Reminds me of Jim Burton's comments in "The Pentagon Wars" about what gets kills in air combat. For all the fancy grids and radars and systems, some 80% of kills were made with "The Mark I Eyeball" system.
Burton advocated cheaper planes, the better to have more of them. Well, Jim's passed into retirement and then the grave, while they built the F-35 instead of his ideas.
I absolutely love things like this, insider views from professionals explaining interesting aspects of their work, in a field I’ll never experience.
Not overthinking things, usually a good idea.
Reminds me of one of my Dad’s friends who was a mortar-man in Korea. As a kid He once told me they “could drop a round in a garbage can.” I ran into him a decade later when I was in Camp Lejeune and he was reliving his USMC days.