{"id":81930,"date":"2018-09-22T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81930"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:36","slug":"pentagon-wants-army-marine-corps-to-select-higher-caliber-grunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81930","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Wants Army, Marine Corps to Select Higher-Caliber Grunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We don’t make this stuff up,\u00a0 there are people who do it for us.\u00a0 \u00a0From military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Close Combat Lethality Task Force is trying to identify “best-of-breed science and programs” to find young Marines and soldiers who have the right mix of physical and mental endurance to excel in close combat, according to Sgt. Maj. Jason Wilson, the senior Army enlisted representative for the task force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WTF is a Close Combat Lethality Task Force?\u00a0 \u00a0Do they get a Patch, Tab, Pin or some kind of Tiera?\u00a0 The thought of this CCLTF makes me tingle in naughty places.<\/p>\n

“We want to be able to get those soldiers identified early, to find out, ‘Do you have the leadership potential to be in the infantry, do you have the mental stability to be able to be in the infantry’ and do they have the resilience and the mental capacity to be able to handle some of the things that they may see in the infantry — to be able to overcome that adversity and bounce back,” Wilson told a group of defense reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis launched the task force in March to find ways of helping the services as well as Army Special Operations Command become more lethal at their craft.<\/p>\n

“Close combat is an environment characterized by extreme violence within line of sight of the enemy, where historically the vast majority of military combat casualties occur,” Wilson said. “It is a tough job for anybody, to be able to … close with and destroy the enemy. … That is our purpose.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There we have it, we need to fix this combat environment so it’s not so scary.\u00a0 Who wants to be so up close and personal with the enemy anyway?\u00a0 And, all those casualties…that is just uncalled for.<\/p>\n

But the infantry has often been characterized as a career field that does not require high intelligence.<\/p>\n

“We are looking to get the infantry to where it is not a place where we send soldiers that don’t have the mental capacity to do other jobs,” said Wilson, who has been an infantryman for 23 years. “I’m not saying that everybody in the infantry is bad, but we want to get away from close combat forces, you know, being a place for soldiers that don’t meet the requisite criteria to be an intel analyst.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have been a Platoon Sergeant in Combat Arms, you can not imagine the wasted intellectual might that hides in reserve.\u00a0 \u00a0I had some real Einsteins in the crowd.\u00a0 I figured there were a couple of Ph.D.’s hidden in those Platoons.\u00a0 When they were not licking the urinal cakes I had them practicing the manner in which they were going to charge an enemy machine gun nest.\u00a0 We used to sit in the field at night, nestled\u00a0in the swamp with the fog of mosquitoes\u00a0swarming about and regurgitated\u00a0 Nietzsche quotes.\u00a0 I used to thank an imaginary God every night that those Grunts had not figured out how to lick their own balls or nothing on the Lt’s fictional training schedule\u00a0who have been accomplished.\u00a0 The horror, the horror…<\/p>\n

Yep, bursting with covert Intel Analysts…that’s the plan.\u00a0 Who is going to burn the shitters in this new age of intellectual giants?\u00a0 \u00a0Every Grunt is really just a bag of brains.\u00a0 FMTT<\/p>\n

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