Army hustles to train soldiers for both conventional war, counterinsurgenc

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BAUMHOLDER, Germany — In a radical reorientation, many soldiers are training to fight two distinctly different wars as the U.S. Army adapts from the post-Cold War world to fighting the global war on terrorism.

Even soldiers in the Army’s last armored division are expected to train to be ready to wage two completely different fights — a nebulous counterinsurgency such as Iraq, and a large force-on-force conflict on a defined battlefield.

While a majority of soldiers in the 1st Armored Division are infantrymen, the Army is becoming more high-tech, not less, and heavy divisions are bringing a larger number of complex, high-skill weapons systems to the battlefield.

The Army’s plan to keep those soldiers proficient on those weapons is being tested to the limits.
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[Nikepallas]

1. Rush training only leads to two things Bad soldiers and high body counts

[villagechild]

2. hustle just means shorter boot camp

recall ... August 24, 2004, Under growing pressure to ship Marines to Iraq, the Marine Corps is cutting in half the rigorous field combat training it gives units preparing to deploy, senior officers say. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/nj1.htm

[KDLarsen]

3. Am I the only one who saw this headline:

"Army hustlers to train soldiers...." ?