{"id":38917,"date":"2013-12-19T08:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38917"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:33:45","slug":"just-cause-anniversary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38917","title":{"rendered":"Just Cause Anniversary lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States deposed Panama’s Manuel Noriega 24 years ago tomorrow morning in what was known as Operation Just Cause<\/a>. ROS sends us a link from Stars & Stripes<\/a> in which the commander of the 82d Airborne Division claims that it would be much more difficult for his unit to mount an operation like that today;<\/p>\n

Today’s force simply isn’t as prepared as it needs to be for such a mission, officials said. Most air crews don’t have sufficient training, and there are not enough paratroopers in each unit to fill key roles like jumpmasters.<\/p>\n

“An operation like Panama or Haiti — we would be hard pressed to do today,” said Maj. Gen. John W. Nicholson, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.<\/p>\n

Nicholson said America’s ability to respond to any crisis in the world had suffered because of the focus on those wars but added that the division had a renewed emphasis on its role as the United States’ Global Response Force.<\/p>\n

The Global Response Force must be ready to deploy within 18 hours and must be prepared for any number of combat or humanitarian scenarios.<\/p>\n

Despite the emphasis, work is still needed, he said.<\/p>\n

Only a quarter of air crews are qualified for such a mission, Nicholson said, and the division still needs more jumpmasters and soldiers certified to deal with hazardous materials in each unit.<\/p>\n

“We’re not there yet as a joint team,” Nicholson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Nicholson goes on that the whole operation was “muscle memory” because the units involved had trained for such a mission so often that it was just a series of properly executed battle drills. It was the same with Desert Storm. The reason the ground war only lasted 100 hours is because the war was just like a Table XII gunnery exercise at Grafenwoehr with fewer trees. Training won wars and advanced politicians’ policies. Training is the most important thing that troops do – because sweat in training saves blood in combat. I’m pretty sure that our next enemy won’t clear with our commanders the next time and place they’ll strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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