What’s your point? The doctrine we developed in WWII and in Vietnam came from our failures in combat. We’re fighting a different enemy, we’re learning what we need to do and what doesn’t work. With far fewer lives lost than in previous wars, I might add.
Yes we are. However, our current training is several years old. The doctrine that is currently being used and taught is for the most part 5+ years old. I have direct involvement with the current pre-tain up for the deploying soldiers here at Ft. Bliss. They are still being taught to stop at all trash piles and Cordon due to IED’s. We need to take all key leaders immediately after their re-deployment, run them through a de-briefing, then take that info and change the Doctrine based upon the experiences that they encountered. By time the red tape gets lifted and it gets into the manual, it will be only 1 year old and not 5-7 years old. I keep seeing the same Pepsi Can loaded with C-4 on the handouts that I had in 04-05. I am not saying that the system is broken, but that it needs to be current. Also, you will never hear me say that “Simulation Training” is not a good thing, but it must be done along with actual “Boots on Ground” training. Imagine you only going through the EST2000, never stepped foot in a Stryker and going to war, then being issued your Stryker. This is simular to what the CSS Units are doing with their soldiers. They are even qualifying on the Weaponeer prior to rolling out. This is just wrong.
OK... now I see the issue. "Doctrine" is different from "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures." Doctrine is how we *as an Army* fight in the big picture, and TTP is how individual soldiers and small units (brigade and below) actually execute doctrine. IOW, doctrine might be " paint the house" and the TTP is "start from the top and work your way down from left to right, using red paint."
What you're really saying is that the Army needs a better way to disseminate current TTPs from the combat theater into the training plans for deploying units, especially for CS / CSS units. That's very different from saying the Army is still using outdated doctrine, because they're not. The doctrine (big picture stuff, remember) SHOULDN'T be changed every time the wind blows, whereas TTP are constantly being modified to meet the most current threats.
That isn't true of the training I got at Ft Sill in 2006.
When I was training, most of our trainers had returned within the last year.
That's the same "training" I got from those retards in Kuwait. The reality of how you deal with an IED threat doesn't brief well, so I doubt it'll ever change. That's not even an issue with training, that an issue with how the upper echelons of the Army work.
They are even qualifying on the Weaponeer prior to rolling out. This is just wrong.
That is very, very wrong. I have no doubt that some units finger-drill the basic Soldier tasks, and I have no doubt that CS/CSS units are at the top of the list. Given what I saw of a particular Cav BCT in Mosul (from Fort Bliss, btw) I have no doubt that some combat units do it, too. This is inexcusable, and their chain of command should be relieved. Of course, I know how the Army works, as I'm sure you do, too, and what needs to happen to such people will not happen.