AO - RATTLESNAKE       OPCOM - CWO DENEBEIM        DATE -   19 November 05

Combat Operations Under Cold War-time Contingencies
- Infiltration and patrol.
- Locate and silence enemy artillery objective
- Detection and tracking, Compass Navigation

SCENARIO:
In "About Face", Col. David Hackworth's autobiography, Col. Hackworth describes his first battle experience in TRUST - Triest United States Troops as part of the 351st Regimental Combat Team.
 
This was the hot beginning of the Cold War. The Reds were grabbing what they could for their future  Empire.  Since Tito's Partisans had liberated the Italian City of Trieste in 1945 they felt it was now a permanent addition to the Eastern Block.  President Harry Truman and the West though otherwise and sent TRUST - Triest United States Troops as part of the 351st Regimental Combat Team to re-liberate the Tieste region.

To quote Col. Hackworth..."In the rugged mountains surrounding Trieste, TRUST Troopers dodged bullets, walked through minefields and countered Yugoslavian ambushes. Patrols clashed, bullets sang, booby traps exploded and the call of "Medic" sounded in the hills overlooking the strategic port city."

With this backdrop, the Red forces continue to be locked in combat with their Italian cousins to the south. Both forces, owing to the difficult mountain terrain, operate almost exclusively in small infantry units; combat engagements and probing actions along ill defined Yugo-Italian border  In this forested landscape, small yet highly skilled infantry teams move silently through the woods and over and around rocky outcrops to harass their enemy, spring ambushes, lob mortar rounds, inflicting whatever damage they can against their soon to be long-term adversaries.   

OPROF - Tito's Red Army
BlueFor -  351st Regimental Combat Team, Intelligence and Reconaisance Platoon.

LOAD OUT:
Since the uniforms of this period are quite obscure, loadout will be "Any Woodland Camo" with operational teams differentiated on the basis of standard ABT.

REGISTRATION: 
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3. If you are already active in the Cimmerian ARS...   to attend this Operation.