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2019-07-08 Government

No Grunts Under 26, $250K Bonuses: DoD's Most Radical Ideas to Transform the Infantry

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-08 08:58|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Biggest thing is to cut down the amount of bullshit they have to carry. Nothing destroys knees and backs quite like having to carry nearly 200lbs in gear 12 miles over rough ground for weeks on end.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-07-08 09:12|| 2019-07-08 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, or give them caddies.☺

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 09:35|| 2019-07-08 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 antiquated methods

You mean stuff that has worked for, oh, about 4,000 years?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-08 11:22|| 2019-07-08 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 antiquated methods...

We need new methods that somehow are viewpoint neutral™ so that we have a combat force that has no racial, ethnic, religious, weight-ist ( All hail the 1st Weight Watchers™ Regiment as it waddles towards the enemy!) or other biases!

Posted by magpie 2019-07-08 12:44|| 2019-07-08 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 There's room for improvement, but not where they're looking. The American armyman is still one of the most feared units in battle. No less healthier or deadlier than the enemy. How about fixing other stuff ? Like cutting out pog middle-managers for tasks better handled on-the-fly, in field. Lesser interference/oversight from the beltway boobs. A more adaptive system for SRoEs, to adjust for the wily tactics employed by rag-heads. I assume these are what get grunts killed most of the time.

All those serving in the 75th Ranger today must have cut their teeth in Enduring Freedom. You cannot peace-time train to 'transform' an infantry to match up to that xp. I think under direct supervision of Mattis, it was something else, and the CCLTF today seems more concerned with squad stabilization through "unit social cohesion", and obtaining funds for vague re-armament projects. See this too, it seems... interesting.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 15:05|| 2019-07-08 15:05|| Front Page Top

#6 One problem is that the US Armed Forces seems to have this "One Size Fits All" mentality. Had it before WW2, still have it seems, that the US Rifleman is an interchangeable military cog in the bigger assembly line of death-dealing... If it doesn't work then they were not trained appropriately. National fixation on the glories of the Age of Big Industry, maybe.

Hogwash. We need Specialists for many of the jobs. (The same way the multi-role LCS and F-35 have turned into One Size Fits None boondoggles) I asked a guy, oh back before 9/11, if what we really needed was a "...lot of Military Police Brigades and a small Expeditionary Army, putting nearly all of the Tread-Heads in the National Guard...?"

Posted by magpie 2019-07-08 18:51|| 2019-07-08 18:51|| Front Page Top

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