From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 23:47:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Mines, Part 5
roll of concertina. Signs are placed at intervals reading "MINES" in language
of army laying and in local language. Influenced by following factors.
1)Prevent fraticide. Joe Snuffy, Infantry, isn't too bright. You don't mark
it, he'll walk into it. 2)Geneva Conventions require it. If your background
includes 'em, so be it. If you background involved having your entire JAG
department shot out the airlock, ignore marking requirements.
3)Exceptions--scatterable minefields in enemy rear areas don't have
to be marked, obviously. Minefields abandoned and control of area turned over
to enemy don't have to be marked. 4)Protective minefields at FEBA generally
only have to be marked along rear edge and flanks. 5)Minefields may be marked
as individual mine fields, or you can throw up a fence around the whole group.
Your call. I prefer group, but YMMV.