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Originally Posted by Eddie
Don't get me wrong, in the face of a conventional fight against Iran, all of this is good experience. But our assigned mission is Village Stability Operations. This is 6 weeks of time that we won't be able to give back to our soldiers to prepare them to do something that is brand new to 99% of them.
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Oh. You need a Military Police S3 shop. We were in those villages in 2003 and 2004. All those medical missions, civil affairs missions, civil engineering missions, the Red Cross / Red Crescent / World Health / Oxfam / Save the Children protection missions, the "I want a EYEs on tour by three, four star, congressman, and senators mission.
That was the Military Police. Rear Area defence, convoy escort, and Police / Counter criminal intelligence are their full time missions.
19-4 is the Manual some of the older manuals are written by Viet Nam vets, the 90's manuals are speculative and full of buzzwords, the later manuals after 2004 are again being written by people with experience.