Re: Your most stressful Role
Posted: 2010-09-11 21:03
Wihtout a single moment of hesitation:
Arty IED and or Miner on Fallujah and Gaza. Especially when its johnny, people expect results lol.
May it be either mining the beach and road on Gaza, setting up multiple arty IEDs ambush on the south palace of Fallujah. You must achieve results because it is often the only chance the team will have at destroying the BlueFors heavy armors when facing capable opponnents.
Without a doubt one of my most stressfull moments in that situation was when the Tank was already behind the south palace on fallujah, I had finally just got ahold of the kit and the ammo truck. Rush my way to the corner, heavy fighting going on. I tell my squad m8s to keep up the diversion and hold the enemy as long as they could as I placed multiple ARTY IEDs on a corner. Running thru light and heavy fire dropping my shells next to a stop sign, then running back to the corner to resupply and do it again.
I did that 3 times, then got in the pick up, called in the blast on the chat.
*Clear killzone, blast radius 150m, Fire in the hole... Fire in the hole*
Suddenly all firing stops, few seconds of silence then a big boooom followed by several dust mushrooms.
The target was the armors next to the palace, little freebie was a hummvee running for my corner. Many cheers can be heard on the chat, My squad spotters are laughting their asses off.
When I go for damage assessment, hummvees, APCs and bodies scattered all over the place. lol
Once I got both merkavas on the beach of gaza, huge IDF operation forcing into the beach, had to wait a good 25 mins for them to get on the killzone, watching from a rooftop, taking fire. There was 4 arty IEDs spreared out 20 ft from each other all over the kill zone, lol.
P.S: Squad leading shouldnt be stressful, if you stress while you lead you shouldnt lead at all. Leadership isnt something you learn, its instinct. I cant remember how many times I got stressed out SLs who shouted at their people instead of doing their job. Blaming squad members for their personal failure at commanding a unit.
While in other instances, I often get formidable leaders who know what they are doing, stay calm even in the most intense situations. Thats the guys whose orders you follow without hesitation. You know that if you get your job done, and other members do as well, everything will go as planned.
Without a doubt the best quality of a squad leader is the ability to stay calm at all times. Think it thru and give understandable and effective orders. The fact a squad members doesnt do his job properly is often due to the fact he didnt receive proper advice and orders. It is a SLs job to understand what his cards are, and how to play them.
Arty IED and or Miner on Fallujah and Gaza. Especially when its johnny, people expect results lol.
May it be either mining the beach and road on Gaza, setting up multiple arty IEDs ambush on the south palace of Fallujah. You must achieve results because it is often the only chance the team will have at destroying the BlueFors heavy armors when facing capable opponnents.
Without a doubt one of my most stressfull moments in that situation was when the Tank was already behind the south palace on fallujah, I had finally just got ahold of the kit and the ammo truck. Rush my way to the corner, heavy fighting going on. I tell my squad m8s to keep up the diversion and hold the enemy as long as they could as I placed multiple ARTY IEDs on a corner. Running thru light and heavy fire dropping my shells next to a stop sign, then running back to the corner to resupply and do it again.
I did that 3 times, then got in the pick up, called in the blast on the chat.
*Clear killzone, blast radius 150m, Fire in the hole... Fire in the hole*
Suddenly all firing stops, few seconds of silence then a big boooom followed by several dust mushrooms.
The target was the armors next to the palace, little freebie was a hummvee running for my corner. Many cheers can be heard on the chat, My squad spotters are laughting their asses off.
When I go for damage assessment, hummvees, APCs and bodies scattered all over the place. lol
Once I got both merkavas on the beach of gaza, huge IDF operation forcing into the beach, had to wait a good 25 mins for them to get on the killzone, watching from a rooftop, taking fire. There was 4 arty IEDs spreared out 20 ft from each other all over the kill zone, lol.
P.S: Squad leading shouldnt be stressful, if you stress while you lead you shouldnt lead at all. Leadership isnt something you learn, its instinct. I cant remember how many times I got stressed out SLs who shouted at their people instead of doing their job. Blaming squad members for their personal failure at commanding a unit.
While in other instances, I often get formidable leaders who know what they are doing, stay calm even in the most intense situations. Thats the guys whose orders you follow without hesitation. You know that if you get your job done, and other members do as well, everything will go as planned.
Without a doubt the best quality of a squad leader is the ability to stay calm at all times. Think it thru and give understandable and effective orders. The fact a squad members doesnt do his job properly is often due to the fact he didnt receive proper advice and orders. It is a SLs job to understand what his cards are, and how to play them.
R for the past 3 weeks so I don't know if my scarce experience is a valid opinion. However, if I had to pick one would most likely be the trans pilots for their ungrateful and stressful role. SLs come next.
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