Patrolling

A patrol of this size actually takes up a lot of room.

The patrol has radio communication at both the front...

...and the rear.

Radio takes modern warfare beyond the age of the runner, so that messages of importance can be transmitted instantly to headquarters.

Messages of any unusual circumstance, for instance.

Anything on the ground that needs to be reported.

Army Patrol

The automatic rifle with it's large capacity box magazine can provide excellent fire support for the patrol, if needed.

The burp gun provides high volumes of close in fire.

The bazooka gives an individual man the chance to destroy a tank.

The patrol is made up of many complex elements.

The outriders, the advance party, the trail and the main body.

Troops in the Forest on Patrol

His rifle at high port, this soldier knows the men in the main body depend on his ability to watch for a flank attack.

MPC recast 60mm US Army figures.  I use them in blue as Air Force or Naval Landing party.  The Green Army Men get used as Army.

Take a position and cover the patrol as the move forward.

Monitor the radio, keep contact with higher headquarters.  Another man walks with the radioman, he watches out so the radioman can concentrate on the radio traffic.

The radio weighs a ton, so the radioman carries only a pistol.  His radio is his weapon.

The jungle is sometimes difficult to move into.

The Thompson submachine gun and the hand grenade, two weapons of close in battle.

I love the detail on this figures, look at the eyes and the wood grain on the SMG butt.

MPC Pteranodons

A nest of pteranodons.

They dig their nests in the soft soil to lay their eggs in.

Then they bury the eggs, as seen here.

The eggs grow into new pteranodons under the warm sun.

And then the cycle begins anew next year.