Posted on Dec 8, 2019
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With the recent events at NAS Pensacola, should the United States be training foreign militaries? I realize that everyone the US trains is considered our allies, but so is Saudi Arabia and apparently more than just the gunman was involved. PFC (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSG(P) James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" LTC Stephen F. CPL Dave Hoover SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SSG (Join to see) Capt Dwayne Conyers CPT Jack Durish
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LTC Stephen F.
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To be honest the School of the Americas and our training programs with European allies and allies from Australia through Korea and Japan are mutually beneficial my friend SSG(P) (Join to see). The problem since 1979 at least has been with Muslim majority nations as well as nations like Nigeria which is split.
IMHO it is wiser to train Muslim majority nation military personnel in their home countries.
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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Absolutely, it increases our interoperability for our allies to be using the same doctrine, methods, and techniques as us. For instance, all the NATO nations use the same operations orders format that we use. When I was a medic I had a student in my class who was a commissioned nurse in the Lithuanian Army and was going to the Nurse Administration course after that. While I was there, I met a guy from Malaysia who was an Army Ranger School and Airborne School graduate. While I was in Iraq we stood up an Infantry battalion, teaching these Soldiers Small Unit Tactics one sqaud at a time.
The US has the most complete set of military schools in the whole world. Allowing other countries to attend our schools enables us to work closer and strengthens our ties with them. Every person who attends a school here becomes a point of contact in a different country, it builds our professional network into an international one
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SPC Stewart Smith
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That is a very good question and I just don't have an answer either way. What a 'sticky' subject.
How do we leave our allies in the dust when they ask us for assistance in training? How do we train our allies, who can be our future enemies, without giving them secrets that could hurt/kill us?
I wish I had a crystal ball. I don't and can't answer this.
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