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On suppresive fire, I can't image what those soldiers were going through but once learned a humiliating lesson in suppressive fire during a h.s. paintball game.
Near the end of the day an "enemy" was walking across an open field 75yrds away. I plinked at him but the paintballs would curve a foot after 10 yards.
Useless.
He noticed, did a slow jog away, and I chased him into a shack where I took cover behind a tree 50yrs away overlooking it.
After an exchange, he let loose a fusillade that splattered the side of the tree in one foot groupings several times a second.
After 3-4 seconds it stopped, I peeked my head out, and he came around the back of my tree! I was dead/captured. He had exited the shack and somehow ran the distance uphill while laying down accurate fire. Impressive.
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