Just curious if anyone has read about or knows people in the military who are dealing with the Iraqi forces because the situation is a real stinker.

500 sign up. After first paycheck, 150 are left. They are seperated from US forces in bases by huge walls, they are fueding within the police thanks to the same reasons as a possible civil war, they sell each other out, they allow IEDs to be placed within plain view of their watchposts and then say "i didn't see nuthin!" when it blows up some real soldiers, the early stages of the team building failed due to situations where they were understaffed and underarmed and without supplies and people abandoned their posts never to come back because they felt the Americans were't giving them enough support and heres the big one....

The food sucks. Anyone who is or has been in the military knows how important it is to have good, plentiful chow for the men.

I feel like the teambuilding failure in the early stages lost us decent recruits who never came back. Now its a mix of a few people who really believe what they are doing, and a bunch of others in it for a paycheck who will run when you say "boo"

Of course, building an army is only half the problem, the other is finding the people to control the army who aren't going to dismantle the constitution and declare a monarchy the day the coalition pulls out