Ukraine is conscripting thousands of new soldiers as the war with Russia now enters its second year. The pressure to train civilians quickly and then send them to the front is tremendous as Ukraine faces an enemy with four times the population.
. Vyacheslav says he'd like to provide at least 35 days of training and appears uncomfortable with the short time frame.
The trainers refer to themselves, tongue-in-cheek, as the"A Team," a reference to the popular 1980s action-adventure TV show about a motley crew of former special forces soldiers trying to clear their names of a crime they didn't commit.Kelly Kilhoffer, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, volunteered with the team last year. On a couple of occasions, he says, he was able to get three to four weeks to train a group of soldiers.
One of the dead ones was a gung-ho Ukrainian graphic artist turned soldier named Ed. His passing hit Kilhoffer and the rest of the team hard. They recalled Ed as funny, always smiling and devoted to training and improvement. Another team member, Stan, a retired U.S. Marine staff sergeant, says Ed was killed on his first mission, an assault on a Russian trench line that went wrong. Ed, who had a wife and toddler son, lost both legs in a minefield.
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