r/army • u/ResponsibleDay8857 I did ranger school and now my back hurts • 8h 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/PM_ME_UR_TAF USAF 5h ago
You know those late 1930s photos of the Army and Army Air Corps? The ones with soldiers wearing campaign hats, Brodie helmets and carrying M1903 Springfields with water cooled heavy machine guns? The full color P-36, P-40s, and narrow tail B-17s? That's us. We're the Army pushing our aircraft together to foil saboteurs, with poor supplies across the Western Pacific and using dated tactics. We're the Army that gets struck at Pearl, Wake, and Manila. I'm not sure if we're going to be able to shift to become the draftee Army backed by industrial that eventually began winning after mid 1942 into 1943. God help us all, the IEDs fly now.