antabanta posted:GTAngler posted:antabanta posted:GTAngler posted:antabanta posted:GTAngler posted:My humble apologies. Let me clarify.Normal operations = peace-time. Clear? In war-time any matrix can apply. Clear?
Reserve unit = reservists in the sense of the GPM (that was the gist of our discussion) NOT an actual reserve military unit.
Anything else you need clarified?
To tidy up: Let's get back to the main discussion. You have no knowledge of the GDF/GPM. Correct? Therefore your comments are founded on speculation. Correct? Do you concede the necessity for the GPM in small Guyana that cannot afford a large standing army or are you still struggling with it?
You make no sense whatsoever. Let me make sure I understand what you're saying. In peace time, reserve units and regular units cannot be mixed but you expect them to function at an optimal level if deployed together in wartime. Read that back to yourself a few times. Also explain why in peace time, these units cannot operate together. Guyana needs a "reservist" element within the GDF not a separate army.
Perhaps you should check with your co-worker. Rules in war-time change for obvious reasons. If you don't know what the obvious reasons are, nothing will make sense to you. In peace-time we won't mix the reservists (not reserve units) with regular units for the same reason we don't mix the GPF and the GDF. Why do you think Guyana needs a reservist element withing the GDF? What is the strength of the GDF and the strength of the GPM? The GPM can better pursue its goal as a separate unit from the GDF.
In other words, you haven't the faintest idea but continue to spew nonsense. It might interest you to know that the United States Military has been putting Guard, Reserve and Regular Units together during peacetime. Continuing this semi-intelligent, semi on your part, discussion, is a waste of time.
Please don't stop now. I'm just beginning to learn a few things. For example:
1. You left Guyana at an early age, so you have little or no knowledge of Guyana.
2. Because of 1 you can't possibly know anything about Guyana's military.
3. You have to be a genius to be an expert on something you know nothing about or a complete idiot to enter a debate about something you know nothing about.
Please give us examples of when the US mixed regular and reserve troops and I will give you the reasons why.
Can you assimilate that the GPM embraces the concept of a regional citizen-army while managed centrally by the government, not by the citizens as is the unorganized militia of the US? Try to understand also there are major cultural, operational, and functional differences that advise against mixing the two forces.
I'll humor you one last time. First of all, I happen to have served in the United States Army. Now, you do realize you have basically been restating what I have been saying all the time about a militia. You are taking all the criteria for a reservist force and applying them to a militia. You yourself agreed that the former GPM was the reservist element of the GDF. You do realize also that any Militia in the current United States is private, are not government sponsored and are for the most part, anti-government. You are the one who keeps "answering" questions with "obvious" and "reasons I wouldn't care to understand" and "use Google". So either explain all those differences and obvious reasons for those of us who aren't experts on the GDF and Guyana's military such as yourself, unless as I have said before, you haven't the faintest idea about what you think you know, or, take a dignified exit from this discussion instead of continuing to look like an idiot.
No need for you to humor me. You first post on this thread contested the GPM as a separate entity and you want it to remain a part of the GDF out of your concern that it is an arm of the PNC. Correct? I have provided ample reason why it should remain separate. I'm not taking the criteria for a reservist force and applying them to a militia. The GPM is a regional reservist, citizen-army, managed and controller by the national government. It is NOT anti-govt, obviously. It is NOT private. It can be used to supplement GDF forces in times of need but cannot be under the umbrella of the GDF for a number of reasons, mainly, at its heyday and at full strength it was probably close in numbers to the GDF, there is a massive cultural difference between the two organizations that would easily evolve into conflict, different functionality and operational expectations. What else would you like me to explain?
Whatever I think I know about Guyana's military would far surpass your knowledge if only by virtue of my personal experience.
Not all militia in the US is private. If you were anything but a grunt in the US army you would know that.
Beg some more and I'll consider leaving you alone.
Training is done by regular army forces seconded to the GPM. It was/is in effect a centrally controlled reserve force.
At this point I am thoroughly convinced that you're an idiot. You wrote the above and now you write the highlighted part. Spending a few extra second to think before you write will serve you well. What massive cultural differences? Are you now grasping at straws? What Militia in the current United States is government sponsored? As for me being a grunt, remember your ASSumptions earlier. The military can be broken down into two major groups. Those with the ability to think and those who are necessary to serve those who think. You fall into the latter category. Based on what you've written here I can sure of only two things, you know your left from your right and you know how to salute and say yes sir.