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In my opinion, for combat effectiveness, taekwondo (and other forms of sport fighting) is completely useless. Your better off taking krav maga or a grappling art. Don‘t forget guys, if your in a situation where your resorting to hand to hand combat, it‘s do or die and you‘ve most likely ran out...

Sapper Earl, If you can show me a foolproof way of ridding the world of corruption, while keeping some semblence of freedom, I‘m all for it. I take it you propose we essentially take over the country and build it in our image. Who decides that Haiti is worth it? What about all the other third...

If there were to be any international force sent down there, right now Canada would be the last place I would go looking for any long term commitment of troops. That really isn‘t the issue. Padraig, I do see your point of view, I just don‘t see todays society (not just the Canadian public, but...

Infanteer‘s right, this thread has digressed. I‘ll make my final comments on it and then leave it for another thread. It seems that people are focusing on my comment that there are no bad troops, only bad leaders. Firstly though, don‘t make the mistake of equating this to there only being good...

Jungle, You took my post out of context. Your post looks fine and dandy when you delete half of what I said. I did not say that incidents such as the one you mentioned don‘t happen. I did however object to Max Flinch‘s example where a guy has an nd (yes it happens) but then turns around to say...

Exactly, but if the situation does not rectify itself, at some point continually punishing the group for the continual failures of that individual is pointless. This is the time to address the individual instead of continually punishing the group. No, your referring to the few losers who...

I disagree, I think this statement arises from the other 20%. The middle group will do what you tell them regardless. It is challenging the switched on, piss and vinegar types and boot****ing the retards where a leader proves he can bring his section together. If he can‘t, no matter the level of...

Your missing my point, I know it‘s been done. The point is, in todays society (not a hundred or two hundred years ago) are we willing to watch a country go through the same growing pains we went through? Are you prepared to watch a dozen more Rwanda‘s on the six o‘clock news just so fifty years...

Padraig, Your intentions are noble and the situation you describe mirrors any one of dozens of third world countries. The common ground many of them share is most have all, at one time or another, been official or unofficial colonies of Western nations. Are you proposing that we pull all support...

There is a restaurant/pub near St Stephens Cathedral in the center of town. It‘s called the Cellar and for about 20 euro you can eat all the schnitzel and fixings you want as well as drink all the wine and house hops your liver can handle. Need I say more? Oh yeah, there‘s a bunch of museums and...

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I still like the idea of keeping a 60 at platoon level. It‘s easily portable and at the very least gives more options for close indirect fire support. I think there are times, ie mountainous terrain, where a 60 can be useful. Again as was stated above, adapt to the role and environment. As for...

No better way to get to know the guys than over a few brews. Trust me, you‘ll have no shortage of guys wanting to "advise" you and tell you all their war stories.

I figured it‘d be the harness being removed. 60 large for a piece of metal I could make in a shop in a few hours, nice.

The iltis‘ radios are the same as the man pack ones. You can go from man portable to vehicle setup in a matter of minutes and vice versa. Who ever told you this has obviously never used them.

While collective punishment can be and is an effective tool for team building it has it‘s place. You have to keep in mind why you are using it. Are you making everyone do pushups because one person screwed up? That fails in its intent because it only creates a rift between the troops. The...

While collective punishment can be and is an effective tool for team building it has it‘s place. You have to keep in mind why you are using it. Are you making everyone do pushups because one person screwed up? That fails in its intent because it only creates a rift between the troops. The...

Discipline is part and parcel of the military. Without discipline our military would not function, we would be a band of armed roving thugs. There is a difference, however, between useless and effective discipline. Useless discipline involves tasks that only make the soldier hate his job...

Discipline is part and parcel of the military. Without discipline our military would not function, we would be a band of armed roving thugs. There is a difference, however, between useless and effective discipline. Useless discipline involves tasks that only make the soldier hate his job...

Supplements are just that, supplements, not replacements. I take protein shakes the odd time after a work out, not to completely replace my protein intake at meals, but to supplement them. Overdependence on anything, especially when it comes to supplements, will only work against you in the long...