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Given the current fiscal realities on the US Forces I would not be surprised if the SFGs lost their formal DA elements and started to focus on FID/UW.  Likewise the various SEAL Teams could go back to being SEALs. The AUS have a program similar to the 18X program - back in '06 they had a total...

Me bad.  I am referring to Army rules not AF. I will go to the penalty box for two minutes and feel shame.

Do a google search for "Guardian Angel Afghanistan" - numerous articles pop up dealing with the Green on Blues that occured last August. The fourth photo in the  article series looks a bit more on track for a guardian angel.  The photo referenced at the begining of this thread looks more of a...

In the US System they have to pass a height and weight test.  You first are weighed and measured (height) and if based on your age and height you are over their weight limits then you get taped. The tape is a comparison between the circumference of your neck and the circumference of your...

Arab Spring.  I doubt it.  While I am in no way discounting the significance of the various villages in Panjwa'i rising against the insurgents, but it can also be looked at that given the success in Z/P/M of the ALP a lot of the villages dont want to be the last ones who are letting the...

U.S. Green Beret among those killed in Afghan attack By Mark Morgenstein and Masoud Popalzai, CNN updated 8:43 PM EDT, Mon March 11, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/world/asia/afghanistan-insider-attack/index.html?iref=allsearch Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two Americans -- one a Green...

Don't write off Shilo.  When you are coming out of Gageown you are young.  2VP is traditionally closer knit than the other battalions based on geographic isolation.  The mess is better and the unit as a whole is more sync'd (pers opinion). As a new officer to the regiment you know you are not...

When I was staff at the school we had a 46% success rate on Phase III/DP 1.1 - Cmdt said we had to think positive and not refer to failure rates.  (From my prespective - and this is a different thread - a lot of the failures were based on this was the candidates first real 'taste' of the...

Interesting comments given some of the other posts. The AUS Commando Regiment has an amphib qualification as one of the two cricitcal methods of insertion that you need to have to get your green beret (their green).  Agreed that with a small (under five metre) zodiac you can insert anywhere on...

WRT rolling tanks off the back of C-17's... The US has a couple of battalions in tan berets who have this as one of their tasks (airfield seizure) and the guys with the maroon berets still practice this sort of thing (see Ex PURPLE DRAGON).

Roger that - but that's only like eight of their current 42 active brigades (counting 2CR and the CAV). Be interesting to see what the USMC does with their RCTs - especially with the Canadian Army's current infactuation with them.

The official party line is that the 2x manoeuvre battalions per brigade was ideal for the GWOT.  The Army had planned to cut 8 BCTs to facilitate and now with sequestration are looking at cutting 'five or more.'  Idea is to be able to fight a “very complex war in Korea” to training and advising...

One word gents - sequestration. There are lots of threads out there on other sights – look into it and shudder. Talk has been going on for awhile now on the reduction in BCTs to add a maneouvre unit to the existing BCTs.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  In the HBCTs (or ABCT...

I am quoting this one as a lonely RegF guy I just received a copy of a list of a number of QDJM presented to my old militia unit.  I for one am glad to see, and as much as they complain, that someone at some rank level recognized those individuals who have made personal sacrifice that has...

Another article on the subject..... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/16/mackay-defends-canadian-troops-involved-in-allied-afghan-combat-posts/ MacKay defends Canadian troops involved in allied Afghan combat posts by The Canadian Press on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:52pm - OTTAWA – For the...

I think we are getting a little too wrapped up in this. It is clear it will never work. Look at the example:  email address; telephone; fax; teletypewriter… Somewhere, out there, thousands of staff officers and senior enlisted types are befuddled by no where to place their Blackberry contact...

If I was going to start a rumour about course dates I would say that there is a course starting on 10 Apr (Tuesday – it is a long weekend) and the second one soon after the end of the first – prob early  Oct 07. As for the PT scores - another rumour might be that everyone is doing the PT test...

There are no more Pathfinder Platoons.  Sure the Inf Bn want these guys in their Recce Pls.  But still those are Recce Pls not Pathfinder Platoons. MAU is the only place that says you have to be PPF (or CD) to join.  Well that and the cell at CFLAWC.

Then again the CF had something like 19 positions on US Army Ranger from Sep 06 to Nov 07.  I have heard but cannot confirm that only four people passed PPF last year….. You might be better off going on the ranger course and using your skills within the Army – one of the Infantry Battalions or...

Wrong coast.  The video was the guys from the SCF. Ask LFDTS what they think about the "alternate service delivery" for parachute training. I wonder if they figured out you have to wash the chutes off after jumping into salt water or just ruined the lot of them ;) A question raised that if...