Sergeant Arent (Historical Solution 1)
A Decision-Forcing Case
This article describes the way that the historical protagonist of this decision-forcing case solved the first problem that he faced. If you have yet to read the background to this case and engaged the first problem, please do so before reading the following paragraphs.
When you realized that there was no door to the casemate, you began to look for weak spots in the concrete. You quickly came to the conclusion that these could be found in the in the gun embrasures, the openings where the barrels of the 75mm guns stuck out. As two of these were covered with heavy grease, you ordered your men to place the 50-kilogram shaped charge on the third gun. Unfortunately, the large shaped charge was too big to fit in the embrasures.Â
You therefore decided to try the smaller (12.5-kilogram) charge. This fit snugly against the steel shield that protected the mounting of the gun. When the charge exploded, it pushed the gun and its mounting into the interior of the casemate, leaving a hole in the embrasure large enough for a man to crawl through.
To continue with this decision-forcing case, please proceed to the article called Sergeant Arent (Problem 2.)
