Quote Originally Posted by VMI_Marine View Post
From what I've heard, the DO platoon in Afghanistan was very successful. I doubt our capability to field more than one or two of these platoons per battalion, however. For one, the DO concept calls for a JTAC per squad. That's 27 JTACs per battalion, not including the air shop in the S-3. The EWTGs can't meet that sort of demand for trained JTACs.
I'm rather clueless about all those acronyms, but I remember that the USA raised a multi-million men army out of a tiny army in World War II in about three years.
DO has been around as DO and as predecessor forms for more than ten years now.
Any training bottlenecks are wrong excuses imho.