yellowking
04-28-2003, 12:08 AM
This appears to have happened several times, and have heard various explanations, but this appears to be the closest to first hand. Does this jive with what folks know? From Moore's "Task Force Dagger:"
TEXAS 12 had gotten their new GPS and sat phones when they were in isolation. But some teams didn't get them until they were already in battle. It was a major screw-up, and it meant that some Green Berets were going to be calling in air strikes without ever having used the equipment before. As SFC Mike McElhiney pointed out, "They tried to practice as much as possible," but there was one problem. If you went from your "lat long," latitude longitude, readout for the target, then to your elevation, it reset the first readout to your location, not the enemies'. You had almost a dozen steps to go from a grid coordinate to elevation.
TEXAS 12 had gotten their new GPS and sat phones when they were in isolation. But some teams didn't get them until they were already in battle. It was a major screw-up, and it meant that some Green Berets were going to be calling in air strikes without ever having used the equipment before. As SFC Mike McElhiney pointed out, "They tried to practice as much as possible," but there was one problem. If you went from your "lat long," latitude longitude, readout for the target, then to your elevation, it reset the first readout to your location, not the enemies'. You had almost a dozen steps to go from a grid coordinate to elevation.