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Originally Posted by Panther Al
You know, the first troop commander I had in my old unit was a total idiot (He forbid us from taking more than three mags and *any* grenades with us on patrol in those nice calm places like... fallujah... in order not to upset the locals nor would he allow us to order more ammo for the same reasons) but one thing he did do right, perhaps the only, is he was big on making sure we didn't forget the basics of mech on mech. He made sure back in the world that we trained not only on COIN, but for the Gap as well.
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That was one good point. The kids need to remember how to fight. I think part of that too is that the cav by nature trains in screening operations. Then again, some of our mechanics and cooks have been years without doing their jobs.
I never went that far west of baghdad. But I did get shot at alot in sadar city. I let my platoon break the rules all the time. We never drove in the right hand lane, doing 45 and so on lol