Army cuts time spent on training to get troops to front line faster

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Army cuts time spent on training
Aims to bolster front lines quickly

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | August 19, 2007

FORT MONROE, Va. -- The US Army, struggling to cope with stepped-up operations and extended deployments of its soldiers to Iraq, has shortened the duration of several of its bedrock training courses so that troops can return to fighting units on the front lines more quickly, according to senior training officials.

One training course that is considered the "first step" in educating newly minted sergeants -- the noncommissioned officers considered the backbone of Army units -- has been cut in half to 15 days. Meanwhile, an intensive program designed to prepare young officers for advanced leadership has been compressed from eight months to less than five months so that the Army can fill positions in constant demand from commanders in the Middle East.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/19/army_cuts_time_spent_on_training/

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1. Short-sighted and counterproductive.

Just like everything else the republicans do.

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2. and counter that with we have been training Iraqi army for YEARS

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3. That's smart, I expect the number killed will thus increase rapidly.

Less training = not as prepared = get killed quicker.

More training = better prepared = gets to come home.

:wtf:

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4. We lost record numbers of young officers this way in Vietnam

apparently the welfare of the Iraqi regime is more important to defend than our soldiers' lives