RESTREPO to Air: 29 Nov @ 9pm on NatGeo

[Earhart1971]

You will have to agree. Going up hill in broad daylight against people on top the hill is crazy.

[manfredvonrichthofen]

It is not smart to go up against an enemy in the open in broad daylight in the first place. Yet it is something you can't avoid. In that situation I would order to fall back while launching as many mortars and 40mm grenades as possible while calling for CAS until you get to a comfortable spot to wait for CAS to finish up. Then you would continue to ascend the hill/mountain. There are a million what ifs and there are as many answers, but unless you have read and understand the FM7-8 and actually been in a firefight you won't get satisfactory answers, simply because you do know that there are things that happen that you don't expect, but you don't have the tactical understanding to know what to do in that split second where you have to make that decision right now or you and your team will die. The Infantry train and train and train and train for these situations and scenarios, training evaluators who have the combat experience throw whatever they can at you to ensure that you can make those split second decisions.

You also have to agree that volunteering to be put in those situations makes you kind of crazy already.