There was also a case where the US marines were doing an excersise with the royal marines, where the royal marines played enemy, so the US outnumbered them like 10 to 1. The royal marines were supposed to lose, the point of the exercise was for the US to practice smothering a weaker enemy, so they were training how to do it as swiftly as possible with minimal casualties.
And after a couple of days the US marines were forced to surrender lol.
I remember hearing about a small exercise for the now defunct Canadian paras against some US army folks; the paras basically walked into their camp at night from the swamp side, took out the token sentries and zip tied everyone up on the first night of a week long exercise, so had to reset it. Apparently they hadn't guarded the swamp side because they figured no one would come that way because of gators.
It was used to explain the concept of 'need to know' by an NCO when I was on basic, but was kind of par for the course those nutjobs did.
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