{"id":73615,"date":"2017-07-26T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73615"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:12:18","slug":"mattis-to-refocus-training-on-warfighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73615","title":{"rendered":"Mattis to refocus training on warfighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Fox News<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Jmes Mattis has directed the service chiefs to concentrate training on fighting wars and to spend less time on the social aspect of service persons’ time;<\/p>\n

The secretary wants each service to examine its military education to \u201cregain a concentration on the art and science of warfighting\u201d and look into the hours of \u201cmandatory force training that does not directly support core tasks\u201d such as flying jets, jumping out of planes, and hundreds of other U.S. military missions essential to defending the United States and its allies.<\/p>\n

One official with knowledge of the discussions surrounding the memo told Fox News, \u201cservicemembers spending too much time on senseless training that is really a waste of time.\u201d One U.S. military officer said there is \u201ctoo much sexual harassment training\u201d and not enough time spent at places like the shooting range, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine the culture shock – leadership that wants it’s trigger-pullers pulling triggers.<\/p>\n

People make fun of the Desert Storm “100-hour War”, but they don’t understand that we had been training for exactly that war for more than a decade. It was like a very long Table XII run at Grafenwoehr. We’d had tougher runs at the National Training Center. The reason it only lasted 100-hours was because we were trained properly for it. The Joint Training Center was geared towards fighting wars, until the 90s when it was retooled for “Meals-on-Wheels” operations and the fighting force lost it’s edge that it had to resharpen in the crucible of combat in the GWOT.<\/p>\n

With diminished funding for defense, it only males sense that the Defense Department refocus on fighting wars and away from fighting boredom. I hear that we’re still fighting wars somewhere. <\/p>\n

Mattis also wants the working group to look into \u201chiring practices for the [DoD] civilian workforce,\u201d which some senior military officers have complained has become too large in recent years despite Obama-era cuts involving tens of thousands of uniformed servicemembers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are more civilians working for the Pentagon than there are uniformed troops in the Navy and Air Force combined,\u201d Katherine McIntire Peters, deputy editor of Government Executive Media Group, wrote in a recent op-ed. Peters put the Defense Department\u2019s civilian work force at 770,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s 770,000 people that we’re paying to not pull triggers in the Defense Department.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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