ARMY TRAINING
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —One column of the "Evening Post" of September 10 contained two very significant paragraphs. General Mac Arthur said that the Japanese were the greatest exploiters of their opponents' inefficiency that the world had ever seen. Mr. F. K. Hunt, Coroner, at an inquest in Auckland, found that a soldier at a battle station in New Zealand had been put on duty as a sentry without receiving the necessary training in such duty.
It is a common complaint of men in some camps that they have not enough to do and are not receiving sufficient training. Properly trained New Zealand troops are first-class soldiers, as has'been amply demonstrated by our troops in the Middle East: on the other hand, untrained troops are no match for Japanese who fight "courageously and intelligently." Soldiers are not made merely by placing civilians in uniforms and" in camps. Our enemy is one of the most highlytrained military forces in the world. The men already in the armed forces cannot voice their opinions, and it therefore behoves the civilian com- . munity to speak on their behalf. Would 'it be possible for the daily Press to advocate the appointment without delay of a carefully-selected and intelligent officer with war experience as Inspector of Training in New Zealand Camps?—l am. etc., HOME GUARD.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 6
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