About the name

For those ex-army out there do not fear. They haven't "ruined" the 11 series yet. The army's jobs are put into categories called Military Occupation Specialities commonly called MOS. The MOS is then Sub divided up by a letter. The 11 series is known as the infantary. 11B's are the ground soldiers, the "grunts", 11C's are grunts with mortar tubes and the 11A's are the all knowing college guys, known as officers. There is no 11Foxtrot, it just doesn't exist. I happen to be a lucky soldier that enlisted to be in the 13 series, Field Artillery. The main letter identifiers are B, D, and F. The "B" stands for bunny (not really) and refers to the guys that load and fire the howitzers (big cannons). The "D" stands for...well something, they're the ones that work up the data on their computers and tell the bunnys where to point the guns. The "F" stands for ALOT of things but mainly Foward Observer. It's the job of the FO to send the correct target data to the "D" so he can convert the information into a simple direction for the "B" to point and shoot at.

I say all that to get to my point, 13F's work with the infantry; the last time we have anything to do with the rest of the artillery world is basic training. The world of the 11's is interesting. They're all uptight and shit. They don't like the laid back Foward Observers which will hence forth be refered to as Foxes. Our hair is just alittle longer, our mouths are alittle stronger and our wits tend to be sharper. Foxes work hand in hand with a platoon sized element(about 30-35ppl) where they're used, abused and never recognized for what we can do. As a sergeant I've been the platoon radio telephone operator, a driver, gunner and the guy that has to crawl in the whole and pull out the cache that's inside. My job is to plan and direct fires in offensive and defencive operations. When the we get motared and the grunt next to me gets his combat infantry man's badge(CIB, for being engaged by the enemy) he will get 10pts towards promotion compared to my 5pts for my combat action badge, also called the cryin ass bitch badge because the cooks and everyone else recieve it.

I'm rambling, my point is the Foxes call themselves 11F's because we clear buildings, dig up caches and all the other gay shit the infantry does while carrying a radio to call for fire. It's a term of ridicule and one of endearment.