The 82nd is light infantry. They don't have much equipment. Pretty much if they show up standing, they're there.
Untrained? Ah, like since most of them, and especially the NCO's and officers have gone from a peace time shine your jump boots everyday to actual war fighting, they are untrained? I...don't...think...so.
Not ready to fight? If I was this puke writer, I wouldn't yell that in a Fayetteville saloon if I was him.
This article is leftist boob bait.
Uhhhhhhhh. Instead of "tough, realistic training" they are being shot at with real bullets by real enemy with real blood in a real war zone. Yeah. Sooooo. Sounds like "tough, realistic OJT" to me.