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So yes I'm saying the actual event is far superior than all the ways of attempting to simulate them.
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Okay. I'll agree to a certain extent that the actual event
conditions you to what's going on, but I'd say unequivocably that I'd rather have a totally unproven E-6 straight out of Airborne, Ranger School and the SF Q-Course on my side than Joe Shit the Cherry 18 year old E-Nothing who sat through his two real firefights tucked into a little ball behind the humvee.
Training
does make a difference. There are a lot of guys who have been through the reality of a life and death situation and survived on blind, random luck. The event itself does little to prepare anyone. In fact, I would argue that if you're in the middle of a real event - preparation is over. There's a reason the military (and everybody else) puts a premium on finding and using the best training methods possible, wouldn't you say? And there's a reason those same units don't just hustle everyone out of the recruit depot into combat before training them. It's because those folks
will be better prepared after training than before it. So obviously training has a very important place, yes?
More importantly, it can be the one and only difference between a soldier who faces reality and comes out dead and one who faces it and comes out better.
And with all due respect...
You still haven't suggested how
you'd do it any different.
As for Garland, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave you out.
I've spent the last maybe ten years trying to become wallpaper in a room. I've gotten a lot farther by being the completely underestimated, totally dismissed Anyman than I ever did by walking in and being the obvious threat. TTEscrima is dead nuts on in his assessment on this one.