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03-12-2016, 09:19 PM
hardcorps
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Going back to the military skills like Scuba and freefall, the military schools are PT academies to a point, but they go very in depth into the topics. Also, I mentioned that the Marine Corps switched from the Navy Scuba course to their own combat diver, only the first two weeks are actual scuba training, the rest is training to employ scuba like recon, demolitions and such.
You can learn to parachute, free fall even, in less than a day. To be fair, it isn't that hard. But, you can only go to MFF training after completing basic Airborne, and then accruing several jumps beyond that. Part of the reason for this is that when you make a civilian free fall jump, there is a handful of guys in a little plane, and they get to the release point, and if everyone doesn't make the jump, the circle back and do it again. with military jumps, you get one chance, either because there is another plane following that needs to be there or you don't want to linger over enemy territory any more than necessary.
Point being, like Low Tech said, there is a lot more to these skills than just parachuting or swimming underwater.
Another aspect is the right of passage, or the esprit de corps aspect. When you finish airborne, you are a paratrooper, when you finish scuba, you are a combat diver or frogman. The schools teach a lot more than the skills.
Could they do it in house, or hire contractors? Sure, part of the schools too is that the military is a huge machine and the schools are cogs in the machine. If a GI Joe member needs to learn Scuba, he needs to know it now, not in 6 months when a school seat opens. Also, they might not need full on scuba school either. If a guy like Recondo needs to do a scuba insertion with Torpedo, they can train him up enough in house to do the job. A guy like that would be in great shape, and motivated to learn. he wouldn't get to wear a scuba bubble. It was fairly common, well, maybe not common, for this to happen in the past. I have read accounts where a technician is needed for a commando type raid during WWII and the technician gets a crash course in parachuting.
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