Likewise from my work at Puffing Billy I am lead to believe the Australian Standard calls for the crossing lights and bells to ring 20 seconds before the train gets there. The reason it is not longer is that car drivers get too impatient and cross anyway. If it takes 40 seconds for a road train to cross the lines it can legally enter the crossing before the lights and bells start and still not be clear in time.

Some of the other comments that have been made are also flat out false, or learned in a vacuum without the needed context to know why things are done a certain way. SF, and other US forces, have been quite successful in building partner forces over the last 20 years, but even 20 years is not a lot of time for a military to mature into its own. If you take Colombia for example, it took twice that long to get them up to where they are, and they had far less problems to start out with compared to Iraq or Afghanistan..

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