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"If they didn't’t tell him this in training, how is he supposed to know?"

..... You got me there, but I can tell you this every plane made has a book on every thing possible to know about that plane. Also all emergency procedures are on laminated cards and are carried by both the pilot and the Guy In Back.

So when the probe failed the G.I.B. should have been going thru those procedures to verify what now works and what does not...[it is easy to second guess them, I do realize they were under extreme stress but you're right the training should have kicked in]

The inoperative fuel pumps and the emergency power unit usage are two glaring things that, to me, should have been covered in training. As soon as that basket breaks his training should have sent him down a different decision tree. Either it wasn't covered or it didn't take.

Command decisions were awful. You could argue that the fear of diverting to Kandahar that had been instilled in the pilots caused the loss of the aircraft.

Poor training and poor command decisions. Kind of scary, don't you think?