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To: LindyBill who wrote (16094)	11/14/2003 5:11:29 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793623

Army Special Forces makes an effort to teach languages to its personnel, Every SF soldier has to be at least moderately fluent in his team"s language before he is allowed to go on deployments. They are tested annually in that language and are expected to progress. anyone who has met these fresh-faced, well-meaning young people has the impression that they are much better in a gunfight than in a war of ideas. I agree with the idea if you want something broken, send an A team. They are very very good at breaking things. On the other hand, each team does have at least 2 men fully trained in intelligence (The Intel and the Ops NCOs)Intelligence gathering is integral part of each operation...Each team memorizes an EEI list (essential elements of information) prior to deployment...They usually bring back answers to many or most of the questions. On longer deployments, they are quite good at recruiting local agents. Every US military org has an S-2 section at Battalion and higher levels. The S-2 is named "Intelligence". They provide continuous enemy, weather and terrain analysis for their unit and gather intelligence for higher HQ's use. One of the lessor known negative impacts of the Clinton military reduction was the loss of 35% these intel specialists at every level of our armed forces. a war of ideas SFers are pretty good at war. I commanded an A team for three years. Every day of that time we were deployed overseas. We gathered and turned in huge quantities of data -- all of it was pertinent intelligence. That writer would be quite surprised at the level of cooperation between a lowly A Team and the high levels of our National Intel Orgs.