Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
Anaconda suffered from more flaws than a lack of training, an overweening bureaucracy being but one. That overly bureaucratic bit and its allied overemphasis on force protection is in part a reaction to our less than stellar training; one cannot expect better than average or even average performance from below average training so one tends to be excessively cautious in employment.
Quite. Especially when one considers that the 10th only provided headquarters elements for Anaconda...the combat force (outside of SpecOps) was from the 101st. Mix and match has become one of our other hallmarks, and we never remember that it quite often doesn't go well...