MOUT B-force perspective
This happened 18th January 2007 between 1030 and 1200. Althught I should taken this more serious there's really nothing funny about it, but I cant help it.
We all had 4x10 rounds and two shrapnel grenades model 56.
This day was the last MOUT day of the week filled with, euhm... MOUT. We were told it would contain two big grand finale scenarios that includes everything we've learned that week, we also had to plan everything for our self and the two platoon commanders was the planners of this scenario.
I together with an other guy we got the funny job of being the "b-force" that is the opposing force. We in the opfor got some instructions from our Lt. to engage as the "a-force" make way through the street and then hide in a house and make it difficult for the a-force to take the building. Ok, then I asked how "mean" should we be? Don't be too "mean", was the answer. Ok, lets prepare I said to my partner. We discussed some ideas to make it impossible to take the building... my best idea was to make booby-traps out of two of our four grenades with a little help of duct-tape. But that was a bit "mean" and illegal, instead I started to rearrange the furniture.
Some time passed while the a-force were searching a big building. When they were done with that building they had to make it to the very building I and my partner were outside waiting.
Suddenly a saw a group move in forrsest and I ran in side the building up on a well prepared second floor and I waited on the other side of the building in window to engage groups running across the garden. Then I heard gunfiring and my partner running inside shouting, THERE're HERE!! and he ran up to the third floor to hide and wait. Meanwhile I saw movement and a group ran out of the bushes through the garden and I shot three burst of two rounds each. The instructor pointed that one died. Succes from my point.
Then I rushed to the stairs and took a grenade and pulled the two safetys and found myself waiting for the breech of the front door. Suddenly I heard how they got inside through a window and took one half of the bottom floor. Suddenly they threw a greande from the front door, but that group forgot to check how it looked like and I had been "mean" by closing the door to the hallway leading to the stairs so the grenade bounced out and went of. Now 3 more died and 2 got injured according to the instructor. Weee! I went.
I was still holding my grenade in my hand when the a-force got in side the hallway and I rolled my grenade down the hallway and I heard "SKYDD!!!" (translation: protection) then panic hit that group and half of them were lost in the blast, 3 injured and 1 death the instructor told. I ran very fast up the stair to be on a perfect spoot to "camp" with a perfect view on the stairway.
(when entering the second floor you see open door to the right blocked by table, open door left, stairs continues up to the third floor and two doors opened in the front of the room)
A few minutes later a grenade was thrown up but it go stuck in the mess of tables a chairs in the stair. They ran up and I saw a head and bang - clean head shot. He knew he was dead and he was pulled down by his mates. I regrouped to the left room of the stairway and two ran up and covered to the right and up the stairs, they didn't see me so I fired the last three rounds in the back of the guy covering the to the right. Another casaulty. Reload.
I regrouped again to one of the two doors infront of the stairway and set my ak5 to automatic and fired the whole magazine in about two seconds. 1 injured, 2 dead, the instructor said. Reload.
I then ran to the room beyond the room in the right and saw how suddenly lots of a-force soldiers in the stairway. I sneaked in my last grenade in the mess, killed 5 and injured 2. Then I got out of that room and I thought what would do now. The a-force had already taken two rooms on my floor so half my space was lost. I closed a door and put a table infront of it. I heard how they took room by room with grenades and then they got to the blocked door and manage to get a grenade inside, I ran for cover in another room. Then when the breeched I shot two with four rounds... then a huge opportunity came when one platoon comander enter the stairway and I fired two burst with three rounds and got the platoon comander and a squad leader, now I couldn't wait and i charged the stairway with my last four rounds. Then they got me.
Results: 15 dead and 8 injured. Huge losses in other words.
We used blanks and practice grenades(they have a real ignition but thats it).
It was real fun and exausting with all the smoke.
This happened 18th January 2007 between 1030 and 1200. Althught I should taken this more serious there's really nothing funny about it, but I cant help it.
We all had 4x10 rounds and two shrapnel grenades model 56.
This day was the last MOUT day of the week filled with, euhm... MOUT. We were told it would contain two big grand finale scenarios that includes everything we've learned that week, we also had to plan everything for our self and the two platoon commanders was the planners of this scenario.
I together with an other guy we got the funny job of being the "b-force" that is the opposing force. We in the opfor got some instructions from our Lt. to engage as the "a-force" make way through the street and then hide in a house and make it difficult for the a-force to take the building. Ok, then I asked how "mean" should we be? Don't be too "mean", was the answer. Ok, lets prepare I said to my partner. We discussed some ideas to make it impossible to take the building... my best idea was to make booby-traps out of two of our four grenades with a little help of duct-tape. But that was a bit "mean" and illegal, instead I started to rearrange the furniture.
Some time passed while the a-force were searching a big building. When they were done with that building they had to make it to the very building I and my partner were outside waiting.
Suddenly a saw a group move in forrsest and I ran in side the building up on a well prepared second floor and I waited on the other side of the building in window to engage groups running across the garden. Then I heard gunfiring and my partner running inside shouting, THERE're HERE!! and he ran up to the third floor to hide and wait. Meanwhile I saw movement and a group ran out of the bushes through the garden and I shot three burst of two rounds each. The instructor pointed that one died. Succes from my point.
Then I rushed to the stairs and took a grenade and pulled the two safetys and found myself waiting for the breech of the front door. Suddenly I heard how they got inside through a window and took one half of the bottom floor. Suddenly they threw a greande from the front door, but that group forgot to check how it looked like and I had been "mean" by closing the door to the hallway leading to the stairs so the grenade bounced out and went of. Now 3 more died and 2 got injured according to the instructor. Weee! I went.
I was still holding my grenade in my hand when the a-force got in side the hallway and I rolled my grenade down the hallway and I heard "SKYDD!!!" (translation: protection) then panic hit that group and half of them were lost in the blast, 3 injured and 1 death the instructor told. I ran very fast up the stair to be on a perfect spoot to "camp" with a perfect view on the stairway.
(when entering the second floor you see open door to the right blocked by table, open door left, stairs continues up to the third floor and two doors opened in the front of the room)
A few minutes later a grenade was thrown up but it go stuck in the mess of tables a chairs in the stair. They ran up and I saw a head and bang - clean head shot. He knew he was dead and he was pulled down by his mates. I regrouped to the left room of the stairway and two ran up and covered to the right and up the stairs, they didn't see me so I fired the last three rounds in the back of the guy covering the to the right. Another casaulty. Reload.
I regrouped again to one of the two doors infront of the stairway and set my ak5 to automatic and fired the whole magazine in about two seconds. 1 injured, 2 dead, the instructor said. Reload.
I then ran to the room beyond the room in the right and saw how suddenly lots of a-force soldiers in the stairway. I sneaked in my last grenade in the mess, killed 5 and injured 2. Then I got out of that room and I thought what would do now. The a-force had already taken two rooms on my floor so half my space was lost. I closed a door and put a table infront of it. I heard how they took room by room with grenades and then they got to the blocked door and manage to get a grenade inside, I ran for cover in another room. Then when the breeched I shot two with four rounds... then a huge opportunity came when one platoon comander enter the stairway and I fired two burst with three rounds and got the platoon comander and a squad leader, now I couldn't wait and i charged the stairway with my last four rounds. Then they got me.
Results: 15 dead and 8 injured. Huge losses in other words.
We used blanks and practice grenades(they have a real ignition but thats it).
It was real fun and exausting with all the smoke.
