I'm not really disagreeing. The situation I described was in a UW environment which was the primary mission of the day. We worked with G's. Our mission was to "train, equip, and advise." In Vietnam, depending upin the particular site everyone could become a Special Forces "infantry man". As a RT Team Leader I was not a commo man any longer - except for MOS. We were expected to perform in such a mission and there was no manning chart by MOS.
Don't forget that for every "fun stuff" mission you hear about there are ten "UW Training Missions" being conducted elsewhere. Unfortunately OPSEC would preclude members of the 7th and 6th from elaborating. I think.
Perhaps my initial statements still holds. I do a w4eapons man's job but perhaps he can't do mine. I'm not talking of the technical knowledge which each MOS holds. I am saying that I can carry, and employ weapone, tactically.
However it's time to return to commo.
We were/are Special Forces first and Commo in addition. The same goes for all MOS's. There are/were some fine team Sergeants who were Commo and Nedics. One is even named Team Sergeant.
