Every real mission the Sec Ops people do is also a training mission and far more realistic than classroom exercises. If these soldiers were sitting idly for months at a time I could understand the training thing. But they aren’t, their engaged in what their paid to do.
Perhaps this goofy admiral thinks that training is more important than missions. Sounds about right coming from Navy senior brass.
What??
I’m not sure the ‘combat as training’ is very doctrinally sound.