Originally posted by SwiftandSure
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Yes and the likelyhood of an enemy choosing to defend a field over a town/village is remote.
convoy battle drills should be pivotal to DF training; because from what I understand, to get across the rural area between the usually mission critical urban areas, troops are commonly transported via convoy, which are open to ambush. Hit and run convoy contacts seem to be very popular on todays battlefield, yet no one I've spoken to in the RDF so far (I can't say anything for the PDF) has been trained, or rehearsed convoy battle drills.
On exercise recently we were transported in convoy, when I asked during the mission brief what were the "actions on" En contact en route to RV1, I was greeted with blank stares.
Generally on RDF exercises you either do a route march into enemy terrority or the DOP is short of the FLOT (it is unlikely you will be hit up on transport for safety reasons).
I would say that convoy drills are as important as foot patroling in today's military.
It's just not possible in the present climate to train and equip the RDF to the same standard as the PDF. Surely the best solution would be to make sure the RDF are strong on the fundamentals of basic fieldcraft and OBUA with a focus on defence, then should the unlikely need arise to deploy them, a 3 month predeployment training package should get them up to speed.
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