Originally Posted by
Failure2Stop
My point is that we HAVE learned the lessons, long ago, and we are trying our damnedest to get it out there, but many people would rather play on their PS3 or go golfing than work on the things that save lives.
This really jumped out at me, this statement is very true. I see it every day in my current job, I saw it every day as a patrol officer and I saw it every day (and was just as guilty for about half my career as anyone else) when I was in an infantry unit.
The warrior mindset needs to be cultivated and grown, but along with that a sense of being a professional warrior needs to be cultivated. To many of the troops I worked with (and we had a great unit) did the job as well as they needed to get by, there were few folks that treated the infantry as a profession, something to become a subject matter expert in.
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Of course at the same time I firmly believe that we have one of the most well trained and proffessional militaries of modern times. But there is alot of room for improvement.
Last edited by Preliator; 08-03-12 at 12:29.
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