IRAQI FORCES

whtfucover said...

we turn out recruits in 2 months yes, but....it can take up to a year and sometimes 2 to train said recruits. For example, my military training for my job was 9 months and it dint ever really stop. What a lot of people fail to see is that they are rebuilding those forces from the ground up, retraining them from Soviet Doctrine, to the US way of fighting. Yes I suppose by using the Soviet Doctrine of warfare and training you could technically put a force together that relied solely on not responding until an officer said do it , or you could build a force that was flexible and capable of thinking for itself.

You're right, it does take time. And in fact there have been many rumors circulating that the Iraqi Government has thought about asking the former Republican Guard officers to come back because there is no officer corps in the Iraqi Army. With officers in charge, the training may be better. Promotions within the ranks would be slow in coming, so there needs to be leadership now.