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Old April 23, 2013, 11:05 AM   #10
lcpiper
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Eppe posted the same sentiment in the General Discussion area and you guys brought up most of the points I did.

Eppe, right now, this day, our troops are unprepared for conventional warfare. This is not speculation, it's from direct observation of Active Duty units going through training at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA. I worked there for a year until recently. They are shifting the training focus to reintroduce conventional maneuver combat skills and they are finding that 10 years of playing super cop in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in our troops no longer knowing how to kill a real enemy army equipped with tanks and artillery and organized structure and doctrine.

So what would 10 years of patrolling our borders do to them?

If you give them a task, they will throw themselves at that task and master it, but they will forget the others if they aren't part of the current mission. Could be bad for national survival.

Besides, we already pay others to do it, we just need leadership that will let them do it.
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