Staff-to-Staff input requested

[Red Rat]

When I was working with the Iraqis I discovered that one of the problems was that every Coalition team that came in taught them a different thing...

Then I discovered that the Iraqi Army had its own doctrine, heavily based on US doctrine and which included some very swept up aide memoires, field manuals and the like - naturally all in Arabic... Could I get an English translation? Could I hell! But I did find out that they were produced through MNSTC-I.

Echoing previous advice - find out what they are suppossed to be doing, what their doctrine is (they do have it), get a translation of their doctrine and take it from there.

Oh - and my first meeting with my CO was very business like as well with little chat. However by the end of the tour the Ops Officer wanted to leave his wife for e and the CO was feeding me the choicest cuts from the sheep's head. Stick with it - but be careful of the Ops Officer!

[William F. Owen]

Oh - and my first meeting with my CO was very business like as well with little chat. However by the end of the tour the Ops Officer wanted to leave his wife for e and the CO was feeding me the choicest cuts from the sheep's head. Stick with it - but be careful of the Ops Officer!

So basically what you are saying is that the Ops Officer just wasn't your type?
Get your ass to Tel-Aviv mate. Lots of openly gay soldiers here. You'll have ball... literally!

Eych... I do miss the banter!

[Red Rat]

Definitely not my type!

However judging by the state of the IDF I am sure a visit to Tel Aviv would be productive

[82redleg]

I think those are US Marines, not IDF.

[TheCurmudgeon]

I think those are US Marines, not IDF.

Don't need to know who they are ... just WHERE they are.

Think my profile picture would look a lot better if I had my arm around one of them.