As someone involved in delivering capability to Army, the 'initial' training system is first rate. In fact we train and our pilots to death and I believe they are overtrained compared to the civilian/other countries. I agree we may not have the hours in unit to prep for ops, but the initial training is excellent.
Agree, good 'initial'training, but too much emphasis on IFR and not enough NVD slung loads, hovering etc.
I meant operational unit training is insufficient....glad you agree about emergov being a spin doctor....