On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:29:58 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:58:59 -0500, Maynard G. Krebbs
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:47:22 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
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For example, if you are on a recon in hilly territory and somebody
spots a target high on a hill you might say 11 o'clock high as a way
of getting everybody to focus on one specific area without being
exactly specific. It means slightly to your left and up.

There are variations on a theme in all this, but that's essentially
what it means.

In your example above I would have just gotten the patrol's attention
and mouthed "Gook". They would follow my eyes. It's simple, quiet,
lacking in sudden movement, and did I mention quiet. (You did say it
was a recon patrol didn't you. LOL)

Yes, but when you and I were doing this, we didn't have fancy pants
low power scrambled digital FM transceivers and headsets. :)

PRC-25 with 4lb batteries that lasted 12 minutes if you didn't transmit?
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."