Recent content by Infanteer

As I am engaged in exercises to re-equip and re-organize, I constantly marvel at how poorly equipped we've been for my entire career. Amateur hour.

Probably. It takes 20 seconds of scanning the average comments section of a political themed post on Twitter to realize that "JennyPhillipsfromMarkham" with a two-year old account that has 7,000 posts over that time, and every single one calling down the actions of the government, is either a...

It's this one.

I was more referring to the commentary writ large than the posts on this thread. I see some disingenuous posts on social media stating that more US soldiers died from the flu in WWI than from combat, which neglects to mention that it was the Spanish Influenza, one of the worst global pandemics...

Hmm...here were the first few comments. "He really wants to go back to the Civil War doesn't he." "Compared to our policy of mandatory flu vaccinations for the CAF, it does seem like an oversight." "Not sure when 'conservative' became 'regressive' but here we are." So is the CAF a regressive...

He's right though - people point to the new US policy and say it's sending the US back into the stone age, when the CAF has the same policy and we seem to do fine.

Is this what winning looks like?

He's winning the war so much that he has to tell us about it 5 weeks after he said they had already won the war.

It's a bunch of college interns writing for some Neocon left-behinds. I don't usually pay any attention to what they write.

As usual, ISW is 2 weeks behind the time and just copying other people's work. There were some good articles on Vahidi's rise a few weeks back, and how the regime was changing from one where a Parliament worked under the supervision of the Ayatollahs to a more hardline dictatorship by the IGRC.

Probably. I'd offer that its anchoring bias based on a career of using a service rifle. It's certainly where I am coming from at this as I am not a pistol guy in my spare time. For as long as I've been in, a weapon is readied and is on safe, and is removed from safe when it is fired and then...

That's what I meant when I said "weird psychology."

"Real" purple is the ability to fuse effects across multiple domains on a common target or objective, and to sustain that effort. We dress people up differently and water down their training so they can go to the same school and then call it "purple."

I've done it. Its a good package, but doing it once does not equal expertise. The problem isn't with the training package, its that afterwards, most Army members rarely ever see a pistol again. Hence my comment on training and experience. Outside of those who carry a pistol as their principal...

Purple is a myth. Also, it could be argued that the ECS are getting away from the lowest common denominator so they can improve things.