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The audience of this manual is an 18 year old soldier or airman. Not a lot of common sense or experience there.
You are so wrong there. There is plenty of common sense in the young soldiers. And experience? Maybe not in generators, but a young soldier may very well have built a fast car, or be a farm boy. And Farm Boys, by and large can fix stuff.
The big difference between them and you is this. You do not have a MSG or CW3 standing behind you, and he says, "Take this TM back to the barracks with you. YOU WILL READ, chapter 1-4. In the morning, I am going to ask you 10 questions. Should you not be able to answer at least 9 of them correctly, you will be digging several large holes after duty time, tomorrow." My favorite "Teaching method" was having them drive 9 foot ground rods, and then pulling them back out of the ground. Normally, 2 doses of that medicine was all it took.
You are so wrong there. There is plenty of common sense in the young soldiers. And experience? Maybe not in generators, but a young soldier may very well have built a fast car, or be a farm boy. And Farm Boys, by and large can fix stuff.
The big difference between them and you is this. You do not have a MSG or CW3 standing behind you, and he says, "Take this TM back to the barracks with you. YOU WILL READ, chapter 1-4. In the morning, I am going to ask you 10 questions. Should you not be able to answer at least 9 of them correctly, you will be digging several large holes after duty time, tomorrow." My favorite "Teaching method" was having them drive 9 foot ground rods, and then pulling them back out of the ground. Normally, 2 doses of that medicine was all it took.