- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 110
Thoughts? From a troop's perspective, methinks it was of little use. From my perspective, I learned a little - KLE practice, the importance of mission-command/ lower-lvl initiative, dealing with recalcitrant LNs, how tanks achieve little during non-deliberate operations but eat infantry manpower that could be better spent on other tasks, how force protection and Q/IRFing has - apparently - become the primary role of the BG, and observing the absolute inability of many to coordinate and communicate laterally. Add a dash of seemingly absolute chaos in the PRT and an ad-hoc strategy of rotating a different CIMIC/PSYOPS/JDCC/etc. through the same village every day to ensure nothing ever actually gets accomplished beyond enraging the locals and that about covers it. Oh - and having an unrealistically small number of interpreters so that the "realism" in communication becomes nothing more than a severe impediment to training.
CMTC has an unenviable task and I think they did a great job in most areas. The inf guys in the OMLT and POMLT were great to work with, though I definitely don't envy their task. About the best training value any of my guys got out of the exercise was training troops without their Turret Op crse to do turret watch, how best to fight apathy, and how to make shift lists.
That's just my 2 cents - anyone have anything different on their end?
Oh, and a question: does anyone know whether there's bonuses paid to CIED for responding to calls? Sounds absolutely ridiculous but this rumour doesn't seem to be going away.
CMTC has an unenviable task and I think they did a great job in most areas. The inf guys in the OMLT and POMLT were great to work with, though I definitely don't envy their task. About the best training value any of my guys got out of the exercise was training troops without their Turret Op crse to do turret watch, how best to fight apathy, and how to make shift lists.
That's just my 2 cents - anyone have anything different on their end?
Oh, and a question: does anyone know whether there's bonuses paid to CIED for responding to calls? Sounds absolutely ridiculous but this rumour doesn't seem to be going away.