Re: Paratroopers

Originally Posted by
bltjr1951
In what year?
If you want to challenge members' qualifications to express opinions, at least do them the courtesy of (a) reading their relevant posts which may contain the answer to your question and save you from embarrassing yourself by questioning someone who knows what they're talking about, and (b) respecting their service experience in general and their relevant specialist service experience in particular.
In relation to (a) and (b) so far as forager is concerned, in #3 in this thread he said
I went to jump school in 1967.
I was on jump status 3 1/2 years.
Look at his avatar and read some more of his posts in other threads and you'll see that he is eminently qualified to express an opinion on the matters you question. He is certainly a lot better qualified than the rest of us who have no difficulty with the notion that the best way to reach the ground from a serviceable aeroplane is to be aboard it when it lands uneventfully at a properly constructed aerodrome.


Originally Posted by
bltjr1951
In WW2 people were being trained to kill in a few weeks.
Care to give some examples of American airborne troops doing this, or even any combat troops in any English-speaking army?
Basic training typically took a few months in English-speaking armies, followed by corps training of a similar or longer period, followed for specialist troops such as airborne by another similar or longer period.
As for US airborne, the 101st trained for about two years before going into action in 1944.
Last edited by Rising Sun*; 06-26-2011 at 06:41 AM.
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