I just love this ignorance. We are fighting this war to send a message to politically corrupt countries, that we will not be bullied or harassed by terrorism. That is basically what this war is about.
The only ones whining or protesting are the ones who were related to, or connected to those who were killed in Iraq. I can agree we are sending a lot of improperly trained troops to Iraq for combat, I've witnessed the combat training first hand, I won't go into too much detail, but that's just my opinion based on what I've seen.
U.S. Army Infantry Training Schedule:
Week 1: Discipline and PT (physical training)
Week 2: More Discipline and even more PT, vague training on Claymore mines, jump into a gas chamber; gag and vomit on your way out of it.
Week 3: Even more discipline, and PT -wastefull drill and ceramony bullshit, and vague instruction on first aid procedures, and go through a gay obstacle coarse.
Week 4: More Drill and Ceramony, More Discipline, oohh.. learn how to clean a rifle.
Week 5: Even more PT, Spend 2 days learning how to shoot a rifle and adjust the sights on it, for no more than 10 minutes at a time, and be expected to qualify with a weapon that jams, not because you didn't properly maintenence it, but because the Army is cheap and they use 10+ year old M-16 mags.
Week 6: Get vague training instruction and drills on machine guns, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and maybe get to fire 10 rounds off a mounted .50 caliber machine gun. Learn pointless pugil stick aka bayonet training, which died during the revolutionary war period, and learn a small amount of basic jujitsu, and do more PT, and marches!
Week 7: Piss away time by taking long road ruck marches, and eventually do a few 1 hour long training mission(which you would likely forget later on) to learn squad movements, and do even more PT.
Week 8: If you're not on crutches yet, or you havn't gone psycho yet, you're probably MOS qualified at this point. Expect to do more PT, more road marches, and more vague training operations.
Week 9: Good, you're on your way to graduation, now you can piss away more time on marching, pt, ruck marches, and some retarded injury inducing night infiltration coarse.
Week 10-14: Marching, PT, Discipline, and platoon contraban busts, and shake downs. Eventually finish off with a 15 mile road march, and take your final pt assessment test which gives you a blue cord. Or you can fail the test, and they'll graduate you anyways.
So yeah, I deffinately think our soldiers in training spend more time doing pointless bullshit like: Too much Discipline, which also = PT, Drill and Ceramony, and constant injury inducing PT excercises without being consciencious of safety, which is why most infantry training companies lose at least 15-30% of their trainees to injuries. Plus the training is rushed, and can easily be forgotten.
All you guys see is war, and you hear how the media constantly twists, and terrorizes our military goals, by calculating death tolls, and exhibiting and pimping out images of captured americans being tortured, pimping it out for a hefty sponsorship fee.
Lots of people, even military recruits really have no idea why we are fighting this war. Some people just want to go to Iraq to kill people, which is what I wanted to do. But there is a legitimate reason behind this war.
There are a lot of evil and corrupt leaders in these countries, who think they can control their people by killing them, and bullying other countries with terrorist attacks. This is what we are trying to prevent.... Corruption, manipulation, terrorism.
For those that choose to go against us....Let god sort them out.
