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Old September 6th, 2009, 18:29   #25
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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A 2 man team should be fine provided the members know what they are doing. Ive been involved with anywhere from 6 man recce teams down to just myself. It all depends on the terrain , players you have on your team and the enemy. You dont want to be running a 6 man recce team if your entire force only consists of 30 players. Good radios and people who know how to use them are the MOST important thing. I have used UHF radios for probably 10 years at this point because I have found that FRS just didnt cut it. My comms would get lost and my info wouldnt get out. I switched to UHF and have enough radios to provide a CO with a radio specifically for recce radio traffic. I have been in games where we started with a 4 man recce team and once getting to a target area broke into 2 2 man groups to have eyes on different trails. In the same game 1 2 man team returned to base while the other stayed in the field , alternating 1 sleeping and 1 observing. 1 man works fine as long as you have timed sitreps with your CO. So you would check in every 30 minutes , giving your location and possibly a grid of a position you were moving too , if you got into trouble you would call in a request for a qrf while you got to a safer location.
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