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2014-12-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF reservists in shabby shape, comptroller says in damning report

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I'm well into a first read of Michael G. Waltz's 'Warrior Diplomat, A Greeb Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan.' A great read, but Waltz takes a bit of privilege in his description of the Gulf War mobilization of the 20th SFG(A) and it's go-to-war readiness. The 20th is a National Guard unit which Waltz was assigned to at the time. The facts will show that a great many of the 20th mobilized were not ready for various reasons and were sent home from Fort Bragg as undeployable.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong... but I believe the UK reservists 'Territorials' still employ an active augmentation [filler] scheme. Less attention paid to stodgy officer hierarchy and promotion, more attention paid the soldier and actual requirement.

Soldiering be hard. Soldiering part-time be harder still.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-31 07:28|| 2014-12-31 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe the U.S. Navy has a very effective reserve integration programme aboard warships as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-31 07:32|| 2014-12-31 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Big Deal. Gulf War I experience. Mother nature doesn't care what war planners want. The active duty who train and exercise daily are weeks ahead of those who only can get occasionally exercise and hard training*. There's no magic pill with 48 hour results. You can only go as fast as the slowest man in the unit or you leave them behind.

* whose immediate focus is to feed, cloth, and house his family. Ask the retention officer, mama.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-31 07:51|| 2014-12-31 07:51|| Front Page Top

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