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<blockquote data-quote="Germanicus" data-source="post: 1088989" data-attributes="member: 6175">&quot;Mentoring&quot; is a fashionable military journal term that senior officers use for teaching soldiers from 3rd world armies how to be weak and lose wars. Whoops, I mean how to fight effectively and ethically like our benevolent, human rights focused 1st world militaries. For example you, as a NCO of the American, Brit, Aussie, or Canadian army would &quot;mentor&quot; Iraqi or Afghan soldier Aziz on how to shoot with his brand new M4 or M16 rifle paid for either by the local government or by the US taxpayer (that money then going straight into the bank account of Colt or some US .gov agency's slush fund.) You're also supposed to &quot;mentor&quot; Aziz that killing people is bad and he shouldn't shoot anyone unless he absolutely has to and then have a good cry about it afterwards.&nbsp; Western officers &quot;mentor&quot; Iraqi/Afghan officers how to use sound military tactics-- to somehow win while ensuring no one gets hurt too much.&nbsp; I'm not even kidding. I know this because I've done it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Germanicus, post: 1088989, member: 6175"] "Mentoring" is a fashionable military journal term that senior officers use for teaching soldiers from 3rd world armies how to be weak and lose wars. Whoops, I mean how to fight effectively and ethically like our benevolent, human rights focused 1st world militaries. For example you, as a NCO of the American, Brit, Aussie, or Canadian army would "mentor" Iraqi or Afghan soldier Aziz on how to shoot with his brand new M4 or M16 rifle paid for either by the local government or by the US taxpayer (that money then going straight into the bank account of Colt or some US .gov agency's slush fund.) You're also supposed to "mentor" Aziz that killing people is bad and he shouldn't shoot anyone unless he absolutely has to and then have a good cry about it afterwards. Western officers "mentor" Iraqi/Afghan officers how to use sound military tactics-- to somehow win while ensuring no one gets hurt too much. I'm not even kidding. I know this because I've done it. [/QUOTE]

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