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    Oh, I get it. For the longest time I've been wondering what "knee haul" was!

    So, Cavguy, do you feel the quoting was appropriate? Is there anything you wish they would have included that they didn't?

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    "The risk we run as a force is that we have a generation of officers [who] have spent five to six years [at war] that never have done their conventional competency," Neal Smith says. "And if we were expected on short notice to fulfill that conventional competency, we would struggle very hard to do it as well as we did in 2003 during the attack to Baghdad."
    Very accurate.

    I have to somehow sweep the cobwebs out of my head and remember how to do manual gunnery in two months...yikes.

    Along the same lines, did anyone else see that documentary on Nat Geo last night about NTC? It was pretty interesting.
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    Default Good on ya Pniel

    I sorta cringed when the reporter discussed the focus being "hearts and minds" but it was a decent awareness piece given it ran in less than eight minutes.
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