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I was watching a documentary about dutch veterans of the colonial war in Indonesia just after World War II. One of the Dutch veterans, who had volunteered for service in the war said that before he was send, he had followed a special military training in the United States. He claimed that this training tried to emulate as best it could the real deal. He said that they used live ammo and that a casualty rate of 5 % was acceptable. (He said that this indeed prepare him better than others for the ordeals)
This must have been in the first two years after WW II. Can this story be true or partly true?
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