Some Ukrainian soldiers sent to learn modern combat techniques in the UK, Spain, Germany or Poland are now feeling disappointed. When faced with an emergency, they sometimes find more help on YouTube.
I've long been the opinion that colleges award you a certificate which is further and further removed from actually understanding anything and it'd still be shocking to me if the rot has set in so much that it applies to soldiers
A lot of the "professional soldiers" are either kids trying to get some college money/first job or serving some required term. Nobody really gives a shit about soldiering, they're just there until they can move on to something else.
And the officers I had been around seemed more interested in paper pushing projects than battlefield readiness.
I was in heavy mechanized units and 99% of my time was spent turning a wrench on ancient vehicles (I was not a mechanic) or cleaning up oil/fuel spills. We didn't "train" for shit.
This is part of a wider problem. Even college courses do this shit.
I've long been the opinion that colleges award you a certificate which is further and further removed from actually understanding anything and it'd still be shocking to me if the rot has set in so much that it applies to soldiers
Your education system on late stage capitalism
Kinda makes sense though.
A lot of the "professional soldiers" are either kids trying to get some college money/first job or serving some required term. Nobody really gives a shit about soldiering, they're just there until they can move on to something else.
And the officers I had been around seemed more interested in paper pushing projects than battlefield readiness.
I was in heavy mechanized units and 99% of my time was spent turning a wrench on ancient vehicles (I was not a mechanic) or cleaning up oil/fuel spills. We didn't "train" for shit.
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