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    Are B Coy 3 Inf the only fully mechanised infantry company in the army? or are there others out there

  • #2
    They are all mechanised. However, everyone else uses 3 Inf Bns Armour.


    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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    • #3
      the vehicles were supposed to

      be allotted out amongst all Infantry Units

      but those fine lads from 3 Inf Bn

      reckoned that they can mind our vehicles better than us
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      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      Are full of passionate intensity.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
        They are all mechanised. However, everyone else uses 3 Inf Bns Armour.
        Gotta really piss off the 3rd's maintenance types.

        Nothing more demoralising than to spend hours reparing armour only to let someone else have the fun of breaking it.

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        Driver, tracks, troops.... Drive and adjust!!

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        • #5
          Am presuming this will gradually change as the extra purchased Mowags
          come on stream?
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          • #6
            Doing the maths, but I'm not convinced that there are going to be enough MOWAGs to mechanise every battalion.

            A single company will take about 10-14 vehicles: Three or four per platoon, one or two for the command element. There are, what, nine PDF infantry battalions? Three in each of three brigades? You're talking about 90-125 troop carrier variants right off the bat, before looking at ones at the training school any that the cavalry steal, and any that are deployed abroad.

            I think one mechanised company per brigade is about as good as you're going to get in practical terms, unless you go shopping more. Makes no sense to me. Give all the APCs to the same unit. That way you have one proper mechanised battalion, instead of messing around with semi-mobile battalions which have a company in PCs, and the rest in trucks or on foot.

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            Last edited by California Tanker; 21 January 2007, 07:55.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Truck Driver View Post
              Am presuming this will gradually change as the extra purchased Mowags
              come on stream?
              No.There was talk of the various battalions around the country getting two or three mowags each to train with but that is next to useless where company level wheeled mech tactics are concerned.The plan now is for the apcs to remain centralised with bcoy 3 bn,which has become the apc training unit for the whole army.Nearly all apc related courses are ran there.
              "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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              • #8
                I think the real key is that those with the skills and tools required to maintain the mowags are located at workshops in the curragh. Very little apart from the basic vehicle maintenance is being done outside of Base Workshops any more.

                No practical purpose in locating them anywhere else in any case, when they spend all their operational time overseas, apart from the odd US presidential visit.


                Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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