Don't confuse training with discipline. What took years, as Grif and geezer note, was developing discipline, cohesion, and leadership, as well as getting properly supplied.Apollo wrote:If anything, it required more training to be a soldier during the Revolutionary War period. Can you imagine standing straight up, in line formation, and going through a 20 step process to load your rifle, while bullets are flying all around you and your buddies are dropping like flies?
The basic soldering skills were not the bottleneck. Especially once basic soldiering skills no longer included standing in rank formation waiting to be shot.