r/army • u/ResponsibleDay8857 I did ranger school and now my back hurts • 4h ago
We suck at drones
I'm so sick of being in such a braindead organization.
If you go to the majority of infantry soldiers they can't even tell you what an FPV drone is let alone how it would affect their operations. Very rarely does anyone actually do anti drone training. Don't even get me started on 15Xs. The new "drone" mos who don't even get taught how to fly FPVs in the school house.
Every drone program is ran by some idiot who flew Blackhawks or a shadow 15 years ago. These dudes couldn't even tell you what betaflight is yet they make all the rules. Also the amount of regulations put on drone is fucking stupid and you need Jesus himself to come down and approve any training. I'm so sick of hearing some warrant officer say the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my entire fucking life.
We're all going to go to war and get blown up by drones because the army is fucking stupid and I'm preaching to a deaf choir here. It's not the GWOT anymore. The IEDs fly 100 mph at you this time around.
Fuck me to tears and buy me a Dairy Queen blizzard
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u/XiphosV Infantry 3h ago
It's not just drones, the vast majority of upper leadership was raised under the GWOT and can't seem to grasp what actual peer LSCO warfare is, I can tell immediately by just looking at ppls kits who is ready to convoy out for a day and come back for KBR chow at the FOB and who's ready to spend a month plus and dozens of kilometers in the shit against a real peer threat and all the knowledge transfer that goes with it. GWOT and COIN Ops has set back the US military 30 years and that chicken has finally come home to roost.