Not sure why you seem pissy, I wasn't faulting their methods. Do it right and half assed methods? I know they are decent infantry, and I know they are doing great work in Afghanistan. Hell we've based our Stryker brigade combat teams loosely on your medium wheeled units. Now when it comes to specialist units, Airborne, Air Assault and so forth we take the cake, hell we've got an airborne division and two brigades, you guys have a couple of companies.
Our manning requirements are much more severe than yours too, do you guys even have any divisions? I know we have some training weaknesses, but all you have to do is look at how low our casualty rates are and you'll see it's not like we're just throwing these kids to the wolves. The 4 month figure is for a basic infantryman. The only place you'll see them is in the back of an armored vehicle (Bradley) as dismounts. All other infantryman (Airborne, Air Assault, javelin gunner, machine gunner, mortar, scout sniper, riverine, ranger) have additional schooling before they get to their units and can be certified for deployment. even then you only know about 10% of your job, with most of your real skills coming through OJT, which s how it's done in most professional armies around the world. Also you're earlier comments about mounted patrols. I wouldn't put a cherry in the drivers seat or on the gun. They'd be in the back seat where they can't hurt anything. Drivers should have some experience a to what to look for when it comes to IEDs, route planning, terrain or urban channeling, and know how to react to near and far ambush and other situations. My basic break down would be an E-4 driving, probably E-3 or E-4 on the gun, TC or vehicle commander in the front passenger seat and the cherries in the back. Larry Lyons wrote: >> Larry was in the Canadian military, they must do it pretty different. > > Yes they do it right and don't use half-assed methods. The Canadian army may > be small but they're good. > > I started off in the Canadian militia (equivalent to the national guard but > more professional). I then got into the Reserve Officer University Training > Program (a good way to get through school courtesy of the government). After > I finished my committment I decided that the military was not for me. > > The Canadian military is darned good, just look at its record, and its > members consider themselves having a reputation to uphold. And despite the > decades of neglect its still a very effective military. Or at least that's > what the Taliban are finding out. As an FYI, the Canadians in Afghanistan > have a proportionately far higher casualty rate than any other allied force > in either Iraq or Afghanistan. > >> You can go from the street to war in about 4 months min, considering in >> processing time, schooling, pcs move to your new unit, and deployment. > > You can do it in four months, you mostly have cannon fodder but it can be > done. To really have a trained infantry man, it takes at least 6 months > (basic plus the first half of the RCIC). > >> Now you have a limit of how many people you can push through in that 4 >> months. Space that over three years and you get battalions and brigades >> being built. > > You can clone the battalions by taking the 2IC's all the way down the line to > section leaders and bumping them up one grade. Along with some experienced > senior enlisted ranks you can flesh out a battalion relatively quickly. There > will be teething problems, but those units would be ready in in about a year > and a half. \ > >> Aside: I was reading something the other day about our civil war. id >> you know the Union Army occupied the confederate states for 10 years >> after their victory. > > A lot of that however was the vindictive nature of the Federal and > Reconstruction governments of the time. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261547 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
