Re: Experience and Training

From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> 
> We NEVER train on pursuit because the enemy fights to
> the last man (hence a focus on attrition strategies)
> and after every fight there's nothing to pursue.  Plus
> we have to stop and hold an AAR.  So if you defeat the
> enemy, you are supposed to (swear to God) have a
> "tactical pause" (trying to figure out what an LT
> meant when he said this took 20 minutes because I
> refused to believe in something that stupid) while
> your chain of command writes a new operations order
> and you go through your by-the-book "troop leading
> procedures".

You're not joking, are you.

OK, here's an optimistic view: LTs who are stupid
enough to follow the book here are so stupid that
the book may say the right thing for them. Chew
Gum THEN walk, don't try doing both at the same time.

LT's who have both 2 neurons to fire together and
a backbone of less than noodlelike flexibility will
listen to their NCOs and then do whatever they think 
is best under their own special circumstances,
regardless of the book. Which is likely to be pretty 
good in the chaos of pursuit (though can lead to ambushes
 vs a canny foe).