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Originally posted by Tommy: We've all been complaining about how often our arty is "out of contact" and can't do fire missions. It's starting to convince me that maybe our SPWAW arty is in contact too much! The army just didn't trust or use it's radios all that much, especially in urban, mountainous or forest terrains. They were very unreliable. They used mostly runners and wire connected phones. After every arty or mortar barrage by the enemy (and there were several per day) many wires were cut by the shrapnel. There were many cases where the FO just sat & watched, cut-off from HQ.Tommy