ARRRRRRMY TRAINING SIIIIRRRR!

The Army is as inefficient with its time and money as any large bureaucracy. This especially comes true when training is is involved, as noted previously by some esteemed colleagues. I'm currently in a class that has great information and training. So what's the problem? Where to start, where to start. It's taught (very well) by civilian contractors who I imagine make significantly more thatn I do. Now, if our unit properly resourced thus, no problem. Ahhh, but there is the crux. Only three of us were sent to learn how to form a ream of six. Problem? U mad? I then learn that this team is basically a full time deal, which neither my platoon nor my company can hope to resource with the manpower available. As any business major knows, best way to cut costs is to cut personnel. The military does this as well by cutting the number of people going on deployments. Of course, this does not mean the jobs needed go down, if anything, in our COIN environment, there are even more positions that just become additional duties for the competent. We are tii bloody specialized in the Army and it's hampering our ability to complete missions because the best are over worked and under rested. This leads to an inability to defeat two insyrgencies in 10 years. Definitely more to follow on this topic.