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Sounds like to me, the results are in. Let SF operate as SF, without overwhelming them with the regular force stuff, or you limit their effectiveness.
Something that is intuitive to me, because the effective part of conducting unconventional warfare is being...unconventional.
@Smokin Joe This is a battle that has been going on in the army since Day One of SF. The regular army generals see them as shock troops they can send in as an advance assault force,and it freaks them out when a RA officer orders a SF team that is traveling around on some sort of classified mission tells them to run a mission for them first,and an E-6 or E-7 just flat tells them "No."
Joe Walker,who was a E-6 or E-7 the last time I saw him,and probably one of the most famous SF Team leaders had to save a Captains life once when he and his team were waiting at an airfield for a flight,and some asshat RA Captain got pissed because "there were all those native barbarians carrying CAR-15's and he couldn't get one ,so he ordered one of Joe's Yards to give him his. Whereas the yard went into the standard "can't understand English" phrase they use when they just want someone to leave them alone and go away.
So the Captain tried to snatch it out of the yards hands,and things rapidly went downhill from there. Luckily for everyone,Joe can walking back to the staging area at this time and screamed "STOP!"
His yards stopped,of course,and the Captain stopped in shock to hear enlisted swine giving him orders. Joe make him calm down by telling him to STFU (He probably went into shock then),and finished up by telling him just how close he had came to being killed and that if he knew what was good for him,he would GTF out of the area ASAP.
The yards on our teams were paid mercenaries,not members of any military organization. The ONLY people they took orders from were their American team members.
To say they were faithful to their American leaders is an understatement. When Joe finally left SVN and went off to track down Carlos,the Jackal,Charlie Brown (his number 1 yard) took his wife and child down to the river with him,and killed them and himself with a grenade.
Crap like this is where the term "Arrogant American" came from. Many are so full of themselves that they forget they are there to help the locals,not order them around. Seems like many just can't seem to understand that just because someone doesn't speak English or know how to read and write that an American officer can just lord it over them at will.
It just ain't true.
I HATED the regular army,and LOVED SF.