It was june 2002 in Ukraine army camp, near Odessa, there are lot of "balka" deep gully 20-30 meter Under. My men and i werre on observation post, we know a full tank squadron (12 Leclerc AFV) are moving on us.
First we spotted the tank at 1-1.5 kil gaz smoke ! but suddenly they diseppears and we have to wait 10 minutes before they jump from the gully.
Awesome and very dangerous, at time i think an AFV have rolled over one of my guy's !
He was very Lucky, the Leclerc moved right on him but he have cool mind and rolled out in time.... Oupsss !
I didn't have man over the gully because my team was only 3 and my order restrain me on an crossroad area. I didn't have maps and no intel about balka in this aera. When your're on foot all you see is a field flat like hand for kilometers, you found balka only at 10-20 meters.
Another point, another time i was in Africa, it's real operations in urban aera, never have to shoot, but i maked some combat patrol in "hostile" zone, at the moment you enter the "zone" your are more vigilant than ever and i think in combat situation your are more good to spot than in normal life, perhaps 40-50% more !
Philippe