[Leisler]

"82nd Airborne Division, "the so-called ready brigade is no longer so ready" to fight. Its soldiers are untrained, and its equipment is elsewhere.

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.

[sam_paine]

And this nugget!....Tough, realistic Army training — a defining feature and secret weapon for two decades — is also coming under enormous pressure as time, money and people are siphoned off just to meet the frantic pace of current operational commitments.

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.