Starvin Larry

Throughout the course of last week I watched a few events unfold with amazement. We had:

• Posted on the MVT forum for comment, some blog posts from ‘veteran’ websites. The point of interest was that these bloggers, retired military, were abusively dismissive of any attempts by civilians to tactically train, apparently because if you never served in the military how can you possibly know anything about Small Unit Tactics (SUT)? By way of comment, there is an alarming trend among former military to reflect the entitlement mindset, and also to be ‘offended’ by everything. I see a lot of ‘butthurt’ veterans who reflect this entitlement mindset and who are desperately seeking greater recognition for having served. Also, some of these veteran themed blogs put out some very poor information, mainly because the writers are not the experts in the field that they purport to be. That, however, is not the main point of the post. Moving on.
• Then, mainly centered on a post by SFC Barry at WRSA but spilling over to, and possibly caused /fueled by, some other blogs, we had another internecine bitch fest. It seems started by the usual suspects with the usual aim of attacking those who wish to promote / develop tactical training in the civilian community. The main thrust of the prime offending article, by SFC Barry, was that only military can be effective at tactics, and that any civilians who attempt any training and organization are fools and nothing more than ‘Joe’s Armed Gang.’

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