Light infantry TOEs

[George Fitzgerald]

The point of light infantry is its flexibility. Once we start to task organize the platoons we take some of that flexibility away, we take away our military's responsiveness. The issue in the present conflict is not lack of firepower. Our soldiers and marines completely outclass the insurgents as soldiers. The main issue I observed is the training of our soldiers. The training I went through acted like Iraq and Afghanistan was a homogenous conflict, it certainly is not. And Ft. Irwin was useless. We need to train our infantry to be response to an ever-changing battlefield, not slotted into a specific mission.