In article ,
(ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: Fierce battles in Najab, Helicopter lost. Heavy casualties.
From: (B2431)
Date: 8/13/2004 5:19 PM Pacific Standard Time
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More importantly a true professional LEARNS from history and knows how
to
apply
those lessons.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

That may be true on the strategic level. But sitting in the nose of a
bomb I
learned from my training and my experience what I had to do and how fast
I had
to do it. I can't think of a history book that would have helped me in
that
situation. Can you?

Probably not, although some historic fiction seriously might. Today, of
course, simulator training and large exercises would have helped.

My concern, Art, is recognizing that the strategic and the tactical both
are necessary. If your group took massive casualties attacking
unimportant bridges, how would that have contributed to victory? Think
of the Battle of Britain -- what if the Luftwaffe had spent another week
or two on air defense suppression rather than city bombing?