Should american forces get proper training?

Question

britain have the finest fighting forces in the world, send them to iraq with a load of yanks and they all end up getting shot! why does the government give any old redneck idiot in america a gun and tell them to fire at will? should they at least be shown how to hold a gun?

Answer 1

Aww, how about you suck it and don't call us next time Germany wants your crappy little island.

Answer 2

I take it this is from someone who has never been in any of the armed forces at all as it is a bit silly, the US forces and the British forces regularly train together in joint operations and are regarded by many as some of the finest fighting forces in the world, in combat there is confusion, panic, disorder and many other things going on and accidents to happen its sad but a reality of combat, both sides work hard to prevent this happening but like anything else in life there is no 100% certainty that it wont happen. The US forces are highly trained and havign worked with them on several operations i have first hand experiance of how hard they work and the training they go through, i suggest you get your facts right before ranting from the comfort of your armchair on a subject you dont really know what your talking about.

A little note to some of our cousins out there "Only the military leaders such as Luderndorff and Hindenburg knew the true state of Germany's military plight which had become even more apparent when America had joined in the war in 1917. The success of the Luderndoff Offensive in 1918 was only paper-thin as Germany had lost many of her most able officers in battle"

And in WWII we had beaten back the threat of invasion in 1940 when the RAF defeated the luftwaffe, which prevented the germans gaining air superiority over britain which the germans would have needed to carry out operation sea lion which was abandoned and never raised again as Hitler then decided to invade Russia.

The bits about america rescuing the uk are a little misguided however the ALLIES i.e. Britain,USA, Canada, Australia, Newzealand (see the theme of british and commenwealth here) and of course the Russians where all responsible for the defeat of the Axis forces.

Most Brits really like and admire the americans except when you try to alter history to reflect that just the US won wwI and wwII

Answer 3

Were you aware that American and British forces train together and play war games? British military training is really no different from the American. So.....if the American military is so bad......what does that say about the British military?
Americans are allowed to own guns.......British are not. Don't you think we are already used to the concept of using one?
Maybe we are just a little more trigger happy.
Go back to school, or do some research, then make a valid point.
Have a good one.

Answer 4

Now from a third party ..
Both British and American have a habit of killing off their own in training or in action. Normally the UN is there to share some of the blame.
By the way some of my best friends are rednecks and every one knows how to hold a gun. What to point it at seems to be the problem.

Answer 5

Another moronic rant from a dumbchild who has been educated by the British Labour Party Educational system.

His supposed "question" seem to imply all our US cousins have wiped out the British Army in Iraq!!!

For: Jus Gladii

please add a link to a friendly fire incident caused by the U.N?

To my knowledge they (the U.N)have been the targets of indirect fire on more than one occasion in South Lebanon.

There are no U.N. Mission troops in Iraq or Afghanistan!!!

Answer 6

the American military are trained there are trained to the same standard as British infantry just that they like to swamp a battle Field with men and go head on the British are more trained in night fighting all the last battles that us Brits have fought have been at night

Answer 7

Where was Britain's finest two hundred years ago during the American Revolution or sixty years ago during WW II.

Answer 8

i think you should pay more attention to what you hear.

the US and British troops get basically the same training, the Royal Marines and the USMC have and do train together and the US Army follow the same training situations as the British so it helps when in combat they know what they are doing which is why we have NATO to standardise things

Answer 9

It's because we are trying to fight without the adequate forces, so we end up sending our guys in ASAP. Being so undermanned, we also use private military contractors, which make up about %50 +/- 10 of our forces.

Answer 10

If the American military is so great, how come the largest country you have successfully invaded, and held, in the last 50 years is Grenada.

Always have been a bunch of trigger happy yahoos

Ok, lets list them

50-53 Korean War. Generous to call that a draw - started
where you began
60-65 Vietnam War - think the little guys in black pyjamas got
that one - I think you call them "gooks"
61 Cuba " Bay of Pigs" - total and utter balls-up
83 Grenada - heh you won
89 Panama - total chaos achieved nothing
90-91 Gulf War - not enough bottle to finish it.
93 Somalia/ Mogadishu - I won't embarrass you further
03 Iraqi - Vietnam II

If you wish to quote more historic events.
You cheese loving Americans actively supported France in the Napoleonic Wars - guess you picked the wrong side.

PS All seems to have gone quiet - the Americans have had their bottle of beer - got loud and then fallen asleep.

Answer 11

You put your finger on a big problem our military has in fighting the kind of war that's going on in Iraq. they don't teach Cop training in the military, shooting with discretion and a whole range of social worker type training. There their to shoot, kill & win, using smart bombs that are not as smart as we wish they were, kill good people as well, tanks run over the good and bad, very little understanding of the culture and language.