[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.

[Doctor Raoul]

That kind of OJT will kill you when you make a mistake. In training you get a second chance.

[Non-Sequitur]

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.

It is, if all you want is an army of occupation. But in doing so your armored forces are not practicing their craft, your artillery units aren't honing their skills, your combat engineers aren't training in their specialty, and so forth and so on. You'll wind up with an army that might be able to occupy a city but won't know how to take it in the first place.