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To: ansel12

Not evasive. BARS are volunteers training at the base on weekends and hold annual field drills for 20-45 days. Many of them are already in Ukraine and show themselves well.
As for the rest, most of the called are recent dmbs, mostly with history of deployment.
I wouldn’t call them draftees, because if you were in you will remember the drills until the end of your days. They still undergo training with recent veterans and rebels to take into account the pecularities of this exact conflict.
If one was to Syria it is a good thing but where they spend most of the time behind the wire, maybe seen the enemy twice per deployment, called airstrikes on him and were done with it. Ukraine is a little bit different.


38 posted on 10/14/2022 7:11:30 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

“”Why do they call reserve units conscripts?””

Old men who pulled a hitch when young and then are drafted in their 40s and 50s, and sent to a battle zone are not what we would describe as the calling up of “Reserve Units”, and that is supported by those draftees being interchangeable with the non-prior service draftees and all of them being sent to the front without all the equipment, gear, and training that they would have if they were in a “Reserve Unit”.

You were trying to convince the audience here that “Reserve Units” were merely being sent to active duty, something they were used to seeing in our American Reserve/Guard system in recent decades.


39 posted on 10/14/2022 7:22:50 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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