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For what it's worth, we stayed in quite a few remote outposts during my last trip. Passing through on business I guess.
I won't mention names or locations, but several of them were in danger of being over run by a stiff breeze.
You know the base defense plan is bad when you and your fellow visitors take over a mortar position, man the fighting positions and push people out to find the POO when a base starts taking indirect....because nobody else was doing anything effective.
Laziness and a defensive risk-averse mindset ruled the day. They had bunkers but few fighting positions. A few months after we left they were in fact over run.
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