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Originally Posted by huntcg
Has TRADOC already forgotten the 507th Maintenance Company's stellar performance in combat? Having witnessed the product of lightened, less stress basic training in Camp Virginia and in Southern Iraq circa spring '03, I would say that this watering down of BCT even further is only get more good people KILLED. How many more troops have to die before someone GETS IT?
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Ahh, but you see, the 507th was not a TRADOC unit. They were a CENTCOM unit, out of FORSCOM.
The failure of soldiers on the battlefield is not a TRADOC failure, since TRADOC has no units engaged in combat.
Not TRADOC's problems, once they are passed on the TO&E units.
This will not be fixed till the warfighters demand something be done, and TRADOC gets the quality input, time, and resources needed to realistically train combat soldiers.
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