Your Experience is right there and spot on, its just the verbage that was getting us all tripped up.
I didn't want your comments to get wasted because a grunt in here read them and said "What is he talking about? TL's are absolutely supposed to lead from the front"...
...The GWOT might have brought up everyone's game, but we are stil talking about skill level one (active duty) soldiers. After an entire rotation deployed and a 9-12 months at home station prior to their next deployment, if they were worth a sh*t, shouldn't they be getting close to becoming a TL at that point?...
...Since we are all disucussing MOUT TTPs. I think that you were all taught that the key to a good assault is a successful breach. If the breach and the decisions made upon entering that breach are f**ked up, the whole assault is at risk of failure...
...And not to get too much into the specifics of our TTPs, but Battle drill 6A is a good way to lose a lot of guys for nothing.
Going back to Sinisters comments about having tools and not know why they were created is an absolute truth.
I see the hours and DAYs that GPF BCTs train on this trying to get this right and it hurts me.
Those TTPs are designed to limit loss of life of non-combatants while RAPIDLY securing a target. The lives of the assaulting element come a distant second to the above mentioned factors.
Now take your deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Is there ANYTHING in ANY house that you ever stepped foot into that is worth dying over?
Short of the answer "an American Hostage", your answer should be negative.
So why in the hell are you leading with flesh? stun grenades/flash bangs...blah blah blah.
If you are in a BCT you and I both know you don't have the assets to lead into every room with a stun grenade.
I have literally observed THOUSANDS of entries by various units in the GWOT and the reality is that lack of munitions and a false sense of security lead to more humans going through doors than dogs, bangers, or anything else.
So what is so important in these houses that you are unwilling to set containment and sort that sh*t out from the outside??????????????
Callout is the future in OIF/OEF. Partner forces are the future in these places too. A house must always be cleared with boots on the ground, that does not mean that it needs to be YOU or YOUR soldiers. Its their country, make them earn their freedom, one doorway at a time.
... STOP trying to do CQB in a mud house on the side of a mountain! There is NOTHING inside worth losing your life over.
Find other TTPs and enablers that are safer and more effective.
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