the commander (of mentioned fireteam, platoon or company)
in the sense of directing unit in the dynamic situation will be
main determiner of victory or defeat. How long you can
train putting on the field dressing or tourniquet? How the
operation will be influenced by soldier abilities acquired on
the training of "pseudo-captivity" or marching "solo" with
the small compass in the hand, avoiding instructors on the
SERE training?
So it is time, after almost two decades, to visualize, that
the fundamentals of every soldier skillset by the NATO
standards in knowledge and skills about tactics, techniques
and procedures of actions of the unit ant those should be
trained mainly. Fine prepared combat training should consist
of all those elements that the soldiers in real combat have
to deal with (starting from field order, by the realization of
preparation phase, operation itself, situation reports, and
coordination with other elements to the rebuilding combat
readiness). After first phase of individual soldier training
we have to aspire to the organizing integrated exercises
that reach all team abilities and each specialist. Exercise
prepared like that allows for parallel development of team
and individual skill sets taking into account all relation in the
unit and relations with other units, commanding officer and
enemy.
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