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Originally Posted by rubberneck
Interesting atricle.
If the Army sends all infantry officers to Ranger school why can't they put together a school that exposes them to what and why you guys do what you do? It seems to me that I have read this type of article over and over through the years and nothing seems to change. From the outside it appears if most of the officers in the Army are unaware of your mission and how you accomplish it.
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Because we don't try to train every officer in the Army, we select the ones we think we can train. Then these SF officers are not promoted at a rate comparable to their Ranger unit contemporaries.
Ranger School is a great small unit leadership school and is well entrenched with Army leadership.
A counter-insurgency school is being run in theater right now, but sitting through a class is not the same as buying into the program and leading that life. Officers are normally not promoted based upon their ability to work with their HN counterparts. As soon as this war has moved on, these lessons will be quickly forgotten. Again.
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