Official: Soldiers yet to adapt to war

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/army_reserve
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<<You must prepare yourself physically, mentally, spiritually," Helmly said he advises Reserve soldiers, "such that you are prepared for a call to active duty just as if you knew the hour and the day that it would come. That's a long-term change" from attitudes developed over decades.


For years the conventional wisdom among members of the Army Reserve was that they were unlikely to get mobilized, and if they did it would be for non-combat duty in a secure rear area, far from the fighting. The war in Iraq, where no soldier is immune from attack, has shattered that belief.


Too often, Helmly said, he hears that members of a newly mobilized Reserve unit respond to the news of their activation by saying, "I didn't think it was going to happen to us," and they are not prepared.


"I frankly have started to put a boot up some people's fannies about getting everyone ready," he said. >>
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I would like to stick a boot up his fanny.

[saigon68]

1. MAYBE TOBY KEITH CAN PUT HIS SIZE 12

UP HELMLY'S ASS HOLE

[frylock]

2. give them a few more years, and they'll be pros

remember, Iraq is merely the tactical pivot.

[saigon68]

3. Yes they'll still get to go to Iran and Syria

Then they'll really become proficient at "Creating Democracy"