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Title: What is your take on this?
Post by: oakranger on March 25, 2012, 01:38:20 AM
 :lol

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Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: Pigslilspaz on March 25, 2012, 02:43:42 AM
Completely true.  :rofl
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: eagl on March 25, 2012, 07:33:04 AM
It's "truthy".

At least in the USAF, our pilots are in some cases hugely over-trained, given far more information, tactics, doctrine, etc., than they could possibly need in any one type of fight.  That means when they enter into a REAL fight which never ever ever matches the training scenarios or pre-planned doctrine, the pilot can make it up on the spot *and win* because he's using nearly 100 years of inherited experience to guide his actions.  Sometimes when placed in a set training scenario against an opponent who has trained with just one tactic for that specific scenario, the American fighter pilot will struggle to match his opponent's precision and execution.  But mix it up a bit, and the American fighter pilot's performance goes waaay up compared to any opponent following an inflexible doctrine or using precise pre-planned tactics.

I think the same logic is applied across all of our military services.  Train our military to be flexible by feeding them tactics, doctrine, strategy, and then place them into training exercises where the measure of performance is success, not how precisely they followed the book.  That breeds operational flexibility and effectiveness, and then the really strong swimmers are encouraged to write doctrine for the next generation to ignore  :lol
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: B4Buster on March 25, 2012, 08:33:14 AM
 :rofl
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: wil3ur on March 25, 2012, 10:11:04 AM
 :devil   :x   :rofl    :cheers:  :rofl   :banana:  :salute
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: ozrocker on March 25, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
True. First thing we told Army Butter bar LT's was to throw
most of the book stuff out.
Books don't adapt to situations.
Doctrine is never set in stone.
Flexibility wins battles.
                                                                                                                                                       :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: F22RaptorDude on March 25, 2012, 05:08:03 PM
 :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: uptown on March 25, 2012, 05:12:45 PM
That kind of explains the Rooks battle plan as well.
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: SmokinLoon on March 25, 2012, 05:14:13 PM
Quote from: uptown on March 25, 2012, 05:12:45 PM
That kind of explains the Rooks battle plan as well.

Indeed!!!

 :aok
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: kilo2 on March 25, 2012, 07:30:35 PM
Improvise, adapt and overcome. One of the things my stepdad always told his unit and tried to teach my brothers and I.
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: Plawranc on March 25, 2012, 08:40:23 PM
Standard USAF procedure.

WING IT
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: eagl on March 25, 2012, 09:04:45 PM
Similar to Army procedure.

If it moves, shoot it.
If it isn't moving, scare it until it moves and then shoot it.

USMC policy addendum:  After you shoot it, get someone to videotape you peeing on it.   :x
Title: Re: What is your take on this?
Post by: madhogg on March 25, 2012, 09:41:38 PM
 :rofl