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What is hard for most people to comprehend is that that attitude represented only the most elite units of the past. Current everyday conventional boring ‘leg infantry’ units exceed the PT levels and training levels of most Special Forces during the Vietnam War. They exceed both of those as well as IQ and educational levels of: Waffen SS, WWII Rangers, WWII Airborne and British ‘Commando’ units during WWII. Their per-unit combat-functionality is essentially unmeasurable because it has to be compared to something and there’s nothing comparable in industrial period combat history.

I would make an exception for the US/Canadian unit, 1st Special Service Force.

http://www.firstspecialserviceforce.net/

15 posted on 01/05/2015 6:01:28 PM PST by Sherman Logan

To: Sherman Logan

I thought it was a bit over the top, but if authentic, could be a cultural thing.

18 posted on 01/05/2015 6:06:31 PM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)

To: Sherman Logan

Great website, thanks for the link...those guys were In some nasty campaigns, fighting up the boot of Italy against the Nazis.

19 posted on 01/05/2015 6:10:19 PM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)

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