John Crawley

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1,569 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Apr

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And I know people in the IRA who had been in the Paris, had been in the Royal Marines.

A lot of them had been in the Irish Army.

So there was a pool of professional knowledge there.

But for some reason, there was never a skills audit done to bring that together and to train people to a high level.

We had school teachers who could develop lesson plans and devise a course structure.

We had artists who could devise informative training aids.

A lot of stuff I saw was very easily resolved, I thought.

But for some reason, it never seemed to be.

Don't change between a professional army and a guerrilla army.

I mean, ballistics are ballistics.

A trajectory is a trajectory, whether you're in Marine recon or an untrained guerrilla fighter.

You know, to be an accurate shot, to be, you know, to learn the marks fundamentals, you have to have the basics.

And they're very easily given to people.

I mean, it's not rocket science, learning this stuff.

But I found it...

I found the level of training quite poor.

Not to criticize training officers because many of them had very little training themselves.

A lot of them were doing a very thankless job under very difficult circumstances with very limited resources.

I understood all that.

I certainly didn't join the IRA to be critical of them.

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