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Cherry
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Alright first of all I would like to say, this is a great web site. I have been here since around 2000. I haven't posted much, but I do check the site every couple of days and enjoy the post of other members and agree with alot of you guys. I will say being combat support and observing the quality of soldiers that we get, that I was worried about combat operations in Iraq. If the infantry is anything like we are, it could be bad. BUT THANK GOD THE INFANTRY KICKS ASS. I will worry no more. I just wish I could be apart of a unit that had the attitude like the infantry, or any combat arms unit. I know we must all do our part, but damn it must be nice knowing someone has your back no matter what! In our world it is almost screw them before they screw you. Anyway back to the point, To the Combat Arms, Thanks You make me proud to be an American!! And I will never worry again.
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| HOOAH!! Thanks for serving and thanks for being in Afghanistan Freddie.[thumbUp] Being a commo guy, you can always go SF.
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Cherry
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Thanks Delta. I know SF is always an option, too bad I don't think I have the SF mind set. Some of my closest friends are in or go SFAS. I just think I am in a better place motaviting soldiers, and trying to bring about some pride in their actions. Please excuse me if I ramble, a couple of Jack and Coke's plus the De La Hoya fight leads to a tipical soldier outcome. I am just trying to figure out why there is so much pride in the combat arms units and the combat support is lacking. I know situations are different, but we are all soldiers and depend on each other. It just seems that combat arms really builds teams where as combat support are not as focused. We just kind of place teams as needed with NO TRAINING. And the leadership doesn't care.
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Freddie, it all comes down to two words really, and those words are 'Battle Focus'. Remember the words 'You must have Focus' from the movie 'Karate Kid'?
Well it's the same with 'Battle Focus'. It must drive everything you do on a daily basis in your unit. It is a mindset and it must be instilled by all unit leaders, NCO's and Officers alike. All unit training, and urgency and seriousness of training, should be built around Battle Focus.
Battle Focus is a disciplined mindset and requires much hard work, effort, and sacrifice to maintain. It is doing the hard right over the easy wrong. It is training hard and realistically because you know it will save lives in combat. It is my opinion that coed basic training has gone far in doing away with Battle Focus in the Support branches.
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Hard Charger
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| Part of the issue is the way CS and CSS perform their missions, Combat arms normally are together a lot more and execute as a unit more often. It seems to me that support units provide slices to specific missions or units and never really get the chance to gel as a unit.
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Kilted Texas Paratrooper & E-7 for LIFE
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YA know,,,,,
back in 89 if you asked me why I wanted to go back active,, I'd have told you cause "I want some"
Now, the reason I tried so hard for a Med Waiver was because I wanted the honor of LEADING these awsome, well trained soldiers into battle.
These young troops are just as hard, maybe harder, than we are/were.
But I STILL wanted to be there.
RedLeg,
the CS/CSS troops just plain ARE NOT geting the basic "Warrior Mentality/Training" hamered into them, and it shows. The "Were in the rear with the Gear, the Infantry/Armor has already been through so it's safe" mind-set only leads to casualties. The warrior spirit needs to be placed into ALL basic soldiers,,,,, after all, isnt it called BCT (Basic Combat Training)?
Tex out,
"Consensous is the Absence of Leadership" Margaret Thatcher
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Hard Charger
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| The nature of their mission or the ability to train is not a reflection on the quality of the soldier. There is no question in my mind that the quality of the soldier today is the same as the high quality soldiers I had the honor to serve with.
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Hard Charger
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They mite be from a diffearnt Generation but they know if they dont do well they dont survive. They also cant let the guy next to them down. Its all that cohesion (SP?).
"Greater love than this hath no man, but that he should lay down his life for his friends."
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