{"id":69945,"date":"2017-01-24T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69945"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:54","slug":"old-enough-to-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69945","title":{"rendered":"Old enough to know better."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army is moving forward with the deactivation<\/a> of its Small-Team Reconnaissance Units. \u00a0The drawn down of military capabilities that has been going on for the last 8 years is still in motion.<\/p>\n

Computer models were used to conclude long-range surveillance companies were not in demand by ground commanders.<\/p>\n

Defense analysts have said Army commanders have an aversion to risk and a growing preference to use technology such as satellites and drones for reconnaissance rather than insert small teams of soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Most of us have been around long enough to know that we have not always had the ability to play reconnaissance with a keyboard and a joystick. \u00a0Victory on the battlefield often requires that we have \u00a0redundant capabilities. \u00a0 Using computer models as the primary justification to restructure military assets seems juvenile.<\/p>\n

Long-range surveillance soldiers in the model would attack large units and were killed immediately based on their coding, Scales said, delivering war planners the conclusion the units were a risky, low-reward asset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am sure their computers do show that kind of result. \u00a0I can not help but wonder what their computers show happens if the damn things get unplugged. \u00a0 Drawing down a capability to the point where it no longer exists will cause a loss of expertise that can not be duplicated by killers in cubicles.<\/p>\n

All LRS soldiers are airborne qualified, and many have graduated from Ranger and Pathfinder schools. Most LRS soldiers end up attending at the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course at Fort Benning in Georgia \u2014 a schoolhouse that also trains units such as Navy SEALs and Marine Force Recon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe their coding for battlefield simulations did not include having Secretary Mattis in control of the on\/off button. \u00a0I certainly hope his presence makes a difference in the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Army is moving forward with the deactivation of its Small-Team Reconnaissance Units. \u00a0The drawn down … Old enough to know better.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":69946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,198,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news","category-big-army","category-defense-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}