Could Penal/Punishment battalions work like they did back in

>>1537442

Yeah.

Taking criminals and intentionally giving them military training and guns is generally a retarded idea. The Nazis tried it at least once, however, mostly out of desperation....with horrifying results.

>>1537442
Well we needed penal batallions back then because we needed the manpower, whereas in modern war manpower is almost irrelevant. A single pimple faced retard remotely controlling a Predator drone can do more damage than entire batallions from the 1850s.

>>1537442
>We have a organization that relies on strict discipline and Service
>members of this organization have acces too weapons and other danger ins stuff
>lets arm people who can't follow rules and have repeteadly displayed dangerous behavior
>What could possibly wrong

Pedal battalions consisting of soldiers who otherwise would be shot can be useful though.

We have one, its called the United States marine corps >:)

>>1537442
Yeah, Dirlewanger and his boys were super effective against unarmed women and children. Man is the most dangerous game, they say. The one time the 36th Waffen went up against an actual unit of trained soldiers at the end of the war in Hungary, I believe, they were quite literally annihilated by the Soviets. The unit lost all ability to function as a fighting force and was disbanded. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

>>1537487
All dem rapes.