Thread by @pptsapper

There's a special type of rage that exists when you go to leave in the morning and find that the snow plow has made yet *another* pass and left a berm of hard-packed snow blocking the driveway

I know they don't mean to do it but

They totally do

You see, winter is a campaign. And you have to fight it as such, using combined arms operations to survive. It is a months-long combined arms breach. First you create a lane in your driveway. Then you improve the lane. Then you breach footpaths for your dismounts

You also have to create sustainment lanes - for your CL III and your CL I/VI. Your enemy, the snow, only cares about countermobility. It will sometimes work in concert with the snow plow to repair a breach if you don't provide overwatch, forcing a hasty breach IOT get to work

But this is a campaign, not a battle. You have to think strategically. Snow must be removed before a thaw or refreeze, otherwise your AO will remain in that configuration for the duration. Strategic snow removal dumps are essential for keeping routes open & maintaining capacity

It's important to PMCS your assault breaching vehicle as well as your mechanical breaching device. Deadlined equipment means a failed breach.

And that's just unacceptable.