FOB Keating attack repulsed

[MikeF]

I just heard second hand a recent pre-command course addressed by a very senior NCO was informed that if the prospective Commanders went on a FOB and the troops were wearing their pouches and gear in other than a uniform fashion, that unit was not disciplined.

Silly me, outside of a tourniquet and battle dressings so everyone knew where to find those, I'd have told people to put stuff where it worked best for them. Want to keep your mags in an old Canteen pouch? Go for it...

We've been in a war for nine years and people in high places are saying things that stupid? I said earlier we've forgotten how to fight on foot. Maybe we've forgotten how to fight altogether...

Sad. Scary.

15,000 soldiers at LSAA in 2005. Who knows what it is now?

And I didn't even start with the contractors...

50 men at that patrol base.

I don't see any even coming close to right.