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lookout123 · 07-21-2005, 02:11 PM

A) medics can't fight without sacrificing the (purely imagined) protection of the Geneva Convention.

B) the military is allowed age descrimination and sexual discrimination for, i feel, fairly obvious reasons.

C) A large flaw in the "let's hire civilian contractors" push is what we are now seeing and hearing in the media. we have a sufficient number of trigger pullers to take the fight to the enemy, it is the soft troop strength that we are having problems with.

Example: If you have 1,000 trained GI's in skill set "A" and you have global conflicts that require that 100 of them be deployed at all times - you can rotate indefinitely without much problem. at a 6 month deployment you can go 4-5 years without redeploying the same individuals. If you replace 800 of those trained GI's with civilians who are nondeployable then you have to rotate your remaining 200 troops one after another. that burns them out and their are other problems that pop up with the situation.

oversimplified, yes - but an accurate representation of what has happened inthe US military since 1990.

07-21-2005, 02:11 PM	#14
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	A) medics can't fight without sacrificing the (purely imagined) protection of the Geneva Convention. B) the military is allowed age descrimination and sexual discrimination for, i feel, fairly obvious reasons. C) A large flaw in the "let's hire civilian contractors" push is what we are now seeing and hearing in the media. we have a sufficient number of trigger pullers to take the fight to the enemy, it is the soft troop strength that we are having problems with. Example: If you have 1,000 trained GI's in skill set "A" and you have global conflicts that require that 100 of them be deployed at all times - you can rotate indefinitely without much problem. at a 6 month deployment you can go 4-5 years without redeploying the same individuals. If you replace 800 of those trained GI's with civilians who are nondeployable then you have to rotate your remaining 200 troops one after another. that burns them out and their are other problems that pop up with the situation. oversimplified, yes - but an accurate representation of what has happened inthe US military since 1990. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin