Originally Posted by
William F. Owen
Formation level operations require practising skills to that have a major flow down effect. For the fire team, there may not be a lot of difference, but for Coy Commanders on up, there will be, and very little can be adequately practised doing a CPX.
EG: A Formation level passage of lines, at night to launch to one battle group into an opposed obstacle crossing.
Training fire teams is cheap and easy. Training formations is vastly expensive and very complicated.
You need bridging kit for all the vehicles, plus you need multiple bridging sites
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