US Army Combat Medic loadout

[jester]

Eddie;

Can I ask, this;

Aren't you doing a disservice to your men by not letting them learn to be leaders and do for themselves what they need to? So then they can operate on their own? After all you will not be there all the time, there will come a time and a day when they will have to act for themselves. And if they haven't done it they will surely suffer. Kinda like the whole "give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life." Or as the shrinks say the term is "enabling." And this goes not just for a packing list, but for operations and training. Remember one of the traditional hallmarks of the US that helped us win in the Pacific especialy was our versatility and adaptability whereas the Japanese always kept to the plan. And then we also have the evil empire and many of the countries in Europe where the NCOs or senior NCOs and officers are the only ones who lead, command or know how to operate key equipment, thus you take out the leader and that system or part of the plan is KAPUT!

I know in my unit, most of us craved leadership and responsibility to prove outselves and thus we always did what it took to excell and thus 90% of us could handle damn near any billet and position in the platoon except for maybe the Corpsman and in many cases we would end up doing just that for weeks and months sometimes.