Expendible? Maybe the breaching group and platoon on a FOFO mission...
21Alpha
Originally posted by tvdog:
I think one of the best combat jobs would be scouts, whether infantry or Guards.
Armour scouts have it better, nice big vehicle to ride in and to carry ice coolers....not that they see much of it though
tvdog
Why I say it is the best combat job is that you can play at being a soldier but your job is actually to avoid fighting.
I have friends in Guard Scouts and they ride in jeeps and sit around doing nothing in OP during excercises in small groups away from all the officers etc...
In China where I now live I met a guy who was a recce scout in the PLA during their war with Vietnam. He said that in his AO the main fighting were arty duels.
He served one year but did not have one single firefight as it was their job to merely report enemy movements and not to engage them unnecessarily.