Lessons from the forest - Part 4

Our last forest camp. It ended with a bang.

1. Enjoy the easy forest camps. They are few and far between. I'll probably never have a camp that easy.
2. Icy roads are flipping slippery. You don't want to realise that as your Jeep knock off makes its unstoppable way towards the gutter or tree at incredible speeds.
3. Never trust the artillery fire control centre to know where you are. Even when you give them coordinates accurate up to 10m. They will still fire shells at you if your rival team (or the enemy) is able to contact them. We lost three whole spotter teams on three different days because they didn't keep record of our positions and the fire targets they were given.
4. My ability to generate fire assignments for the artillery squads is impressive.
5. If you run out of shells to fire, exaggerate the importance of your target and you just might get some Cluster Bombs, which in some cases are better.
6. If the enemy takes over civilian buildings, good luck getting Control to fire on their positions. You might as well consider the war lost because Vladimir just set up shop in Uncle Joe's rickety wooden barn.
7. Artillery squads will fire off a barrage of around 40 shells with only four educational, inert shells and two educational, inert detonators; no sweat.
8. Tell Control, "Fire on MY order" and you're assured that the squads will receive the order, "Fire at will". Don't you love Broken Telephone? If you have them repeat the assignment you gave them and you hear them say, "Fire on your order", then it's guaranteed that the shells will be in the air before you even contemplate telling them to fire.
9. I HATE THE WIND.