Chapter 105: Tailor-made!
Many years later, when American-made mortar shells landed on Shepard's head in Angola, he would always remember the afternoon when the Democratic Republic of Congo decided to support the Angolan guerrillas in their resistance to imperialist colonization.
But Shepard didn't know that he would be beaten by the shells he threw out in the future, and he was still experiencing the joy of being an instructor with great interest.
Of course, although he is called the chief instructor, in fact, his daily job is to wear sunglasses and jungle combat uniform, chew gum and walk with his hands behind his back, and the rest of the work is handed over to the PMCs in the rotation!
After all, Shepard didn't know anything about training the army, but fortunately he had more than sixty non-commissioned officers who were good at various infantry skills, and after receiving an additional allowance from Uncle Sam, these guys were happy to teach these black uncles who didn't know anything about it.
Because of the quality of the soldiers and command ability, Shepard didn't expect these trained black uncles to sweep away thousands of armies or anything, after all, this is not Stalingrad, and the quality of the army can be tempered by blood and fire.
Therefore, according to the training plan, the training he prepared for the black uncles was nothing more than the most basic ones, how to dig trenches, how to shoot, how to find cover, how to use medical kits and how to treat the wounded.
In fact, the biggest problem faced by the Shadow Company is not military discipline or morale, but language problems, but fortunately, Shepard still has some mercenary captives in his hands, and a considerable number of these guys have served in the colonial army in the past, and they have no problem communicating with the Black Uncles, and it is enough to come and work as translators.
Therefore, the start of the Shadow Company was quite good, Senerio was very cooperative in selecting two hundred nimble and healthy big men from the Wehrmacht, ready to put the rifle company out first, as for the officers, it was not Shepard who was responsible, they were trained by Kinshasa.
"Well, how much blood did Senerio drink?"
This is Shepard's first reaction after seeing those elite soldiers on the first day, no way, the elite soldiers sent by the other party are more like thieves with troops, most of them are yellow and thin, and they stink, if it weren't for the uniform on their bodies, Shepard really thought that these guys were refugees from somewhere.
Shepard also knew that Senerio was paid empty, and the troops that should have been 20,000 people were actually less than 3,000 in his hands, but if these 3,000 people were in this situation, Shepard would understand why an infantry battalion had to rest after running 20 kilometers a day, after all, if he ran again, he would have to die.
"Then take a shower first, and then start eating!"
Driven by the instructors, the black soldiers were driven to the creek next to the training camp, and after no one gave them a bar of soap, the black soldiers took off their essence without any scruples, and then washed off the dirt on their bodies, and their old military uniforms were burned to ashes.
After taking a shower, each black soldier received his new uniform and personal toiletries, including towels, washbasins, lunch boxes, and other miscellaneous items.
After these preparations were completed, Shepard did not arrange any high-intensity training, after all, he was afraid of training people to death, so in the month before coming to the training camp, the daily task of the black soldiers was to learn how to fold quilts and shine shoes from Korean instructors, in addition to making luncheon meat and other high-fat meals to nourish their fat.
And Shepard also introduced KPI assessments, dividing black soldiers into different groups, and then conducting assessments every week, and those who did well could get candy and chocolate, and those who didn't do well didn't even have to eat dinner.
And most of the black soldiers who are willing to come to receive military training in the United States are actually not chosen to join because of some lofty ideas, everyone comes to eat a full stomach, after all, the food in the training camp is very different from the food they used to eat, the training camp has three meals a day, although the food is not much, that is, canned meat with mushy soup and dry cakes, but it is absolutely full, and their previous meals can be two limited meals of mushy soup and pancakes a day, so in order not to go hungry, these black soldiers did a good job.
After confirming that these guys can adapt to training after a period of feeding, Shepard also opened the second phase without scruples, training on military theory and physical fitness, because of cultural issues, military theory courses, the progress of the black uncles is not large, but the physical fitness level is growing rapidly, under the training of Korean instructors, the long-distance running ability of black soldiers has been greatly improved.
Shepard was not surprised by this, and even encouraged the black soldiers to practice running more.
"It doesn't matter if you can't beat others, just run well, it's not me who praises, your Korean instructors are better than others!"
Shepard even offered a boar that the PMCs had hunted as a reward to encourage black soldiers who excelled in running.
However, Plomri and several commanders who were officers had doubts about this, considering that the next few military districts had already begun shooting training in the second month, and in Shepard's case, the soldiers had not even touched their weapons.
"I'm tailoring this to their needs!"
Shepard explained that in the excellent matching mechanism in the African region, it is rare to see any tactics such as interspersed breakthroughs, on the contrary, the black uncles generally fight with firepower, to put it bluntly, the two sides pull the battle line, you shoot and I fight back and forth, and once the battle line changes or is in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, the black uncles will collapse and collapse in an instant, and the number of unlucky people who die on the way to escape is even more than the number of unlucky people who die in the firefight.
Shepard's physical fitness is not for anything else, it is to let the black uncles run faster when they collapse, as long as they can escape alive, it is a victory, and in doing so, it can be regarded as a disguised preservation of strength.
"After all, existence is everything, everything is for existence, as long as people are still there, then there is still hope, and there can be a counterattack, if the people are gone, then even the hope of counterattack is gone!"
"But these guys only know how to run with their heads covered, and they don't know where to run, isn't that for nothing?"
"That's right, that's what we're going to do, we're teaching them how to run, we're going to teach them where to run!"
Shepard said with a slick voice.
"But what the Pentagon and Kinshasa want are combat-capable troops! And after a while, Colonel Kent will come back to do the assessment......"
"That's even more fine, what do you think he's going to assess? Trust me, no one knows the tactics of running away better than I do! ”