[mp-gg] INFANTRY SKILLS

["Charles Heckman" <Heckman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Three  weeks of intense training by a skilled training staff and they
> should be the equal of infantry in fighting scenarios.

Though you do grave injustice to the quality of our grunts and the
difficulty of raising and maintaining their proficiency... I agree that the
non-military types could be raised to an acceptable level of military skills
with 3-4 weeks of instruction.  Weapons training, very basic tactical
skills, some reaction drills...

If nothing else, you should be able to communicate to them how deadly combat
is after running them against some of the MARS guys in a field exercise or
two...

>To borrow from the Marines, "Everyone
> is a rifleman."

Correction: "Every Marine is a rifleman"   :)  'bare' with me this is going
to come back to the topic...

Put into application, the Marine Corps now requires every recruit to go
through the School of Infantry (which I think is called Advanced Infantry
Training in the Army...) after boot camp and before going to their own MOS
school.  A regular Infantrymen will go through a 36 day stint (ITB) while
non-Infantrymen will go through a 17 day stint (MCT).  That 17 day stint (3
weeks of instruction) is in addition to the ~35 training days in boot camp
devoted entirely to weapons and tactical skills.  (The other 31 training
days are devoted to close order drill, physical fitness and personnel
inspections, etc...).  So the bottom line is that the cooks and bakers in
the Marine Corps have already absorbed 42 training days (7 weeks) of
'intense tactical training' when they get to cook and baker school.  No one
suggests that they are the equivalent of an Infantrymen (71 days intense
training + ~6 mos of Fleet time before they will be considered truly
competent) only that they have the skills they need to function in a combat
environment...

So by extension, if you want the Science guys to be as tactically competent
as a Marine baker (MOS 3381-010) you'll need to run them through a minimum
of 7 weeks of intense training... (that's 7 Military intense weeks = 6 day
weeks which converts to 8.5 weeks of intense training in the civilian world
including NASA and most Law Enforcement academies...)  You would still be
about 5 weeks shy of the minimum training to be considered what is best
termed as an Infantryman's Apprentice in the Fleet... I'm fairly confident
in saying that the Regular Army's training standards are more or less
comparable if oriented a bit differently...

- C






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