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Originally posted by OFKU0
He also said the Americans lost composure and were very scared, even calling for back up to get them out because they appeared to not know what to do.
Certainly a perspective I wasn't expecting to hear.
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People can go rounds about whether we should be using our reserves over there, but regardless, these are still predominantly what we refer to as "weekend warriors." Not a dig, actually it's touted by people I know as fun way to serve and get some action on the weekends. I think our reserves usually do one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer. Given that, it shouldn't be surprising that they become scared (not saying that regular military doesn't get scared) and appear to not know what they're doing. I think part of training is to make many things reflexive and/or "instinctual." Not much chance of that, IMO, if you're only training one weekend a month and still retaining a civilian identity.