There's always 1 US platoon commander instructor at Sandhurst.
As we read, absorb and enjoy FM 3-24, hopefully you will fully embrace and revel in the beauty and majesty of correctly performed foot drill, without singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNyR...eature=related
Some people just can't multi-task...Originally Posted by Coldstreamer
"Law cannot limit what physics makes possible." Humanitarian Apsects of Airpower (papers of Frederick L. Anderson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Too true! I mean, no singing?!?!?
Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat...
Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
http://marctyrrell.com/
a thing of beauty is a joy forever...
a.) I would hope that the UK sees no need to read FM3-24. 99% of what we try to copy from the US comes badly un-stuck.
b.) Now see drill done properly... albeit a bit slow for my taste. In my day we were quicker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4p8...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koAX2mnG1X8
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Magnificent!
Of course, if you set off on time, you wouldn't need to run....
I like Coldstreamer's drill better but I wouldn't care for the funny hats!
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." - Jeff Cooper
Or if you had been in the place you should have been when playing the outfield, you would not have had to display your athletic ability with that amazing diving catch. ( I like baseball metaphors.)
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
Afghan officer cadet
Noticed the other day a clip / report on an Afghan officer due to attend Sandhurst, so maybe there now. Taken a few years to get this far.
davidbfpo
We had Afghan officer cadets at RMA Sandhurst until 1979. I was at staff college with the "class of '79" officer cadet who is now a colonel. Since then we started taking officer cadets again in 2005.
News to me about the American officer cadet. From what I understand it the US system of officer training is quite different from the UK's.
We tended to take mostly Commonwealth officer cadets and a lot of african and middle eastern. Very few Latin American as I recall. In my platoon there was a Thai, an Omani and a Malawian officer cadet, all top blokes and with some interesting stories to tell.
We see a lot of foreign officers on various courses, in fact all the career courses that I have done have had foreign officers on them. Strangely we do not send UK officers on many foreign courses; I cannot help but think we are missing a bit of a trick there.
Red Rat and David,
I have a friend serving on contract now in Kabul who was largely responsible for creating or putting together the new Afghan equivalent of West Point over the past two years.
He told me that one of the outside sources of funding for unique aspects of the Afghan Military Service Academy (don't know it's actual, technical name just now) came from the Government of Turkey, who agreed to fund a chapel, a mosque to be precise, being built as part of the total campus there in Kabul. This was and is a practical, far sighted event in my book.
Am interested in the current tense yellow journalism row going on in the UK Parliament over raising and sending more UK troops to Afghanistan. I believe these UK additional forces and equipment, particularly more helicopters, are sorely needed.
FOR GRADUATE STUDENT INPUT AND STUDY OR DISCUSSION: A friend who is a retired PhD (university professor) here in the South where we all live asked me the other day what are the reasons we are in Afghanistan; why do we still need to be there; and also he asked, his view, why don't we just pull out and declare victory?
Rather than bore everyone with my answers, I am interested in the inputs to these questions from and by the UK graduate students old and new Registered or as Members on the SWJ.
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