Recon Spotting question

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I'd like to relate a personal experience, which although I was not in danger of being shot at, was simulating it, as best the US army could, at the time.
As a cavalry platoon leader in 1977 in Germany (6 Sheridans, 2 M113 scout tracks, 1 M113 4.2 mortar track, and an M113 "command" track which I rarely rode in) I was driving down a wooded hilly road, about to turn a bend and break into the open. I dismounted a scout section, sent them up a hill to peek at the valley below, before proceeding with my vehicles. A wise recon tactic, which took some time.
Note that in this cavalry platoon, a direct derivitive of the WWII cav platoon (Sheridans replacing M8 armored cars) I had no concept of using the Sheridans as scouts.
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