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China to replicate U.S. survival training

BEIJING, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The Chinese government will be training its armed forced with similar tactics used at U.S. survival training academies, state media said Monday.

"Cadets of the Institute of Artillery Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have adopted a new pattern of training in the wild, partially based on the curricula of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point," Xinhua, the Chinese news agency reported, from its Hefei branch.

The rigorous physical and mental demands placed upon military cadets in wilderness training are an important means of winnowing out unsuitable candidates. According to Xinhua, 20 percent of cadets don't graduate from West Point because of the required 10 to 20 days of training in the wilderness every term.

PLA and government officials are worried their officers aren't as tough as their American counterparts. At a meeting of Chinese military academy commandants in 2004, participants complained that some cadets did not like the hardship of survival training. The Central Military Commission and PLA headquarters ordered Major General Ren Fuxing, director of the Artillery Corps institute to introduce West Point-type survival training.

"Comprehensive training in open country is aimed at bringing up high-quality cadets for an army that wants to meet the modern war requirements," Ren said, in the PLA Daily. Adding that results from the pilot program will be monitored by the entire military.

The academy in Hefei, capital of the Anhui province, is one of the four military schools established in July 1999 by China's former president party and PLA leader Jiang Zemin to modernize the military. The other three are the Shijiazhuang Army Command College, the Information Engineering University and the Science and Engineering University.
 
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what can i say...china has been very good at imitating u.s tactics and training. doesnt china have boy scouts?:D

so how exactly do they train?
 
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MIGleader said:
what can i say...china has been very good at imitating u.s tactics and training. doesnt china have boy scouts?:D

so how exactly do they train?
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Boy Scouts? I think that equals the Red Scarves in China.
 
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China to replicate U.S. survival training

BEIJING, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The Chinese government will be training its armed forced with similar tactics used at U.S. survival training academies, state media said Monday.

"Cadets of the Institute of Artillery Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have adopted a new pattern of training in the wild, partially based on the curricula of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point," Xinhua, the Chinese news agency reported, from its Hefei branch.

The rigorous physical and mental demands placed upon military cadets in wilderness training are an important means of winnowing out unsuitable candidates. According to Xinhua, 20 percent of cadets don't graduate from West Point because of the required 10 to 20 days of training in the wilderness every term.

PLA and government officials are worried their officers aren't as tough as their American counterparts. At a meeting of Chinese military academy commandants in 2004, participants complained that some cadets did not like the hardship of survival training. The Central Military Commission and PLA headquarters ordered Major General Ren Fuxing, director of the Artillery Corps institute to introduce West Point-type survival training.

"Comprehensive training in open country is aimed at bringing up high-quality cadets for an army that wants to meet the modern war requirements," Ren said, in the PLA Daily. Adding that results from the pilot program will be monitored by the entire military.

The academy in Hefei, capital of the Anhui province, is one of the four military schools established in July 1999 by China's former president party and PLA leader Jiang Zemin to modernize the military. The other three are the Shijiazhuang Army Command College, the Information Engineering University and the Science and Engineering University.
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o my all the pretty oneliners, i think you guys are going to give Old Goll an hard attack... :roll:
anyways they are just introducing it now? i mean if you go to the MRE thread goll even says they go out into the woods to train (i dont know about survival), but man.. oh yeah i read somewhere on a website (PLA daily, i think) that says like the PLA trainning their marines; basically they just ship them out to sea to an unknown location and give them a couple pack of instant noodles then tell them to survival out there for a week or find their way back..
 
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swimmerXC said:
o my all the pretty oneliners, i think you guys are going to give Old Goll an hard attack... :roll:
anyways they are just introducing it now? i mean if you go to the MRE thread goll even says they go out into the woods to train (i dont know about survival), but man.. oh yeah i read somewhere on a website (PLA daily, i think) that says like the PLA trainning their marines; basically they just ship them out to sea to an unknown location and give them a couple pack of instant noodles then tell them to survival out there for a week or find their way back..
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Maybe I'm just guessing here but but the change to survival training could it be because the PLA is going to be assuming a more interventionist role like the US army eg going to other countries. Why does it feel the need to copy US survival methods otherwise. The PLA methods were perfectly adequate during it's previous conflicts.

Also why jungle training except in Burma, south east asia ?
 
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FreeAsia2000 said:
Maybe I'm just guessing here but but the change to survival training could it be because the PLA is going to be assuming a more interventionist role like the US army eg going to other countries. Why does it feel the need to copy US survival methods otherwise. The PLA methods were perfectly adequate during it's previous conflicts.

Also why jungle training except in Burma, south east asia ?
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is it trying to show the u.s that it intends to take the role of a peaceful army rather than an offensive one?

jungle combat is a good thing to sieze upon. its always been one of the major weakpoints of the u.s army, and chinas south-east regions are full of forests.
 
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MIGleader said:
is it trying to show the u.s that it intends to take the role of a peaceful army rather than an offensive one?

jungle combat is a good thing to sieze upon. its always been one of the major weakpoints of the u.s army, and chinas south-east regions are full of forests.
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On the contrary MIGleader i think the PLA believes that it may be engaged in land campaigns in south east asia which is why it is training for jungle warfare.
However these campaigns would be conducted as a high tech army like the US
and unlike previous guerilla warfare techniques eg the NLA

Is Taiwan similar to South East Asia in geography ?
 
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FreeAsia2000 said:
On the contrary MIGleader i think the PLA believes that it may be engaged in land campaigns in south east asia which is why it is training for jungle warfare.
However these campaigns would be conducted as a high tech army like the US
and unlike previous guerilla warfare techniques eg the NLA

Is Taiwan similar to South East Asia in geography ?
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well, taiwan doesnt have huge forest. maybe some mountains. but any fighting there would be on relatively flat terrain or int cities. why would the pla want to fight in south east asia? china already has begun improving relations with vietnam.
 
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