"Mark Borgerson"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1cbb5ae0547ca39f98973e{at}news.comcast.giganews.com...
> In article , dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA
> says...
> >
> > "J" (janderson_ishere{at}yahoo.com) writes:
> > >> No, they join the Home Guard in a war. "Dad's
Army". No doubt if
> > >> invasion is threatened again we will have a "Mum's
Army" as well.
> >
> > " No doubt ", indeed, well, among people who know
AbZero about the
actual
> > military.
> >
> > For those with a Polaroid of a clue, well, we know that the training
that
> > people need to be able to competantly operate modern military hardware
> > isn't something that a 45 year old can deal with, or that can be learned
> > in a month.
> >
>
> I don't think that the technology of small arms and anti-tank
> weapons has changed that much since WWII---when 45-year-old
> home guards were used in England.   You're not going to be
> strapping those home guards into fighter aircraft or the
> gunner's position of an M1A2.
>
> At 45 years of age, training to use the equipment is not
> as much an issue as is the physical training to engage
> in offensive combat operations.   That would probably limit
> older folks to defensive operations where knowledge of the
> local area might give them some small advantage.    As we've
> found out in Iraq,  it doesn't take sophisticated weapons and
> years of training to tie down several divisions of a modern
> military force.

(snip)


Quite right. It would be more a guerrilla operation.

My father joined the Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard). If
Hitler had invaded everybody young and old would have fought with whatever
came to hand.
 "We shall fight on the beaches.....)

I think you would find if it came to an invasion that the spirit of those
times would still be around.

Geopelia




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