Jessica Lynch Was Not Prepared for Combat

StrategyPage.com ^ | August 18, 2003 | Brant Guillory

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

ok, you are talking about boot camp, as in 2nd phase. i went through summer of 1992, so my memories fading. also, i'm a hollywood marine. even so the training would have been identicle.

Did they send you out to Pendleton then??

[bethelgrad]

Yep. was stationed at Pendleton all four years with 1st Marines. Did 6 months in Okinawa and a WestPac.

[cavtrooper21]

But all it takes the the bullet with "to whom it may concern" on it to level the field.
Pvt Lynch's unit was not let down by their training or their weapons, they were let down by their own NCOs...
If the NCOIC and his (or HER) minions had been doing the job right, the weapons would have worked (better) and the troops would have been ready for ambush.
You were a Ranger, you KNOW that the NCO doing his job right is critical to the sucess of the mission. I was a Pathfinder for 4 1/2 years before a bad drop sent me to a leg unit. We have been there and done that and we both know who dropped the ball that night in Nassirya.
Some of them paid for it with their lives.
Bet the REMFs started taking a better interest in spiffing up their kit, huh?