Well, having some experience in the advisory capacity and keeping acquainted with some of the guys doing the same over the years, I can attest there is quite a bit that can be imparted to these imagined experienced fighters.
Weapons and equipment are a giveaway.
Tactics, techniques, and related activities. believe it or not, are another. Lots more stuff besides weapons involved.
A lot of what those folks do is based on tribal and local issues and not related to anything above that.
Guys working out with the tribes in Afghanistan had a hard time holding their troops in any kind of order. Getting killed in action was a good thing and they would charge into hot areas disregarding their own and anybody else's welfare.
It is hard if not near impossible to get changes implicated, but the decision was made to try. There are an awful lot of hard charging youngsters, mainly SOF types who really like this stuff ad are willing to put themselves on the line just for that.
All the SF guys I served with were at least triple volunteers and repeatedly extended tours and combat related assignments.
Some of the folks wer advised were real hard chargers and others had to be driven to it. We had to be careful to maintain civil relationships as a lot of time was spent patrolling with 2 Americans and 10-50 grinning tribesmen or ferocious Cambodes for weeks at a time.
We do have an all volunteer force now with considerable experience, and there are still those who stay in their basements and opine as to how things should be.
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