I'm a bit confused how plans to quickly increase force sizes are supposed to work. Are we going to recruit volunteers at whatever the market value of a patriotic young man or woman's life is at the moment, transfer experienced commissioned and non-commissioned officers to those units from other units-presumably units with operational infantry experience, train new leadership to fill the gaps in the other units, then equip them (the easy part), train the new troops to the standard of other light infantry units in the US Army or Marine Corps (which is as high as - if not considerably higher than - historical elite units fielded by industrialized nations)? Or are we going to draft a bunch of kids, run give them some guns, run them through a couple of months of training, recruit some other kids, run them through several months of of training and call them "officers" and put them in charge, then feed the lot of them to the metaphorical cannons? Our present force structure relies on the fact that most of our troops are not new recruits. When new soldiers or marines are recruited they enter units that have already been organized, are already trained to a high level, and have experienced leadership.