🇺🇲STOP with the pathetic, gutless excuses already. “Oh, the OPFOR always wins because they know the terrain.” Are you kidding me?
For the love of God and every fallen American who ever bled on foreign soil, I PRAY the United States Army NEVER has to fight on terrain WE “know.”
That would mean we’ve already lost the war before the first shot—because the whole damn mission is to PROJECT POWER, to CARRY THE FIGHT to the enemy’s backyard, to their cities, their mountains, their deserts, their jungles, THEIR HOME TURF. Not sit on our own soil waiting for them to come knock.
We are supposed to be the expeditionary force that invades, seizes, dominates, and destroys on GROUND WE DON’T KNOW. That’s the job. That’s the expectation. That’s what generations of warriors trained, bled, and died for.
So when someone trots out this tired “they know the terrain” line as the reason we’re getting smoked in training, it isn’t just weak—it’s INSULTING. It’s a disgusting, slimy attempt to gaslight the force, to paper over systemic failures, to shield incompetence, and to dodge the hard truth that we are NOT adapting fast enough, NOT training ruthlessly enough, and NOT learning from every single ass-kicking we take.
Every time OPFOR humiliates us, it’s not because “terrain familiarity.” It’s because they EXECUTE BETTER. They MOVE faster. They THINK sharper. They FIGHT hungrier. And instead of staring that reality in the face and saying “We’re getting our asses handed to us—fix it NOW,” too many hide behind this lame cop-out like it excuses anything.
No. Hell no.
We don’t get to make excuses when the real bullets start flying. The enemy won’t care that we “didn’t know the terrain.” They’ll just kill us.
So drop the bullshit. Own the failures. Rip apart what’s broken. Train like our lives depend on it—because they do. Adapt or die. Get better or get gone.
This isn’t a game. This is the United States Army. Act like it.
#NoMoreExcuses #TrainToWin #ProjectPower #ArmyStrong
Ft Irwin just prior to Desert Storm, as featured on PBS NOVA, with 'T-72s' and 'BMPs'