use all of its special forces training and skills

[GoodTaste]

The use of the word "training" is not understood by me. "Training" is defined as "the process of learning the skills you need to do a particular job or activity" (Cambridge Dictionary) and the process of rescuing can't the process of training (training can't really be ruthless).

What does "use all of its special forces training and skills" mean then? Does it actually mean "use all of its special forces trained skills"?

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Special Forces
soldiers on a suicide mission.

The hunt is on...for an American woman being held hostage by a ruthless killer. And there's on;ly one team that can find her before it's too late-the Special Forces. Now time is running out and this team must use all of its special forces training and skills...or the consequences will mean certain death.

Source: the DVD introduction of the film Special Forces

 

[Tarheel]

They are trained for missions like this. And it is is time to put the skills to work that their training has taught them.

 

[GoodTaste]

So it should have been use all of its special forces trained skills rather than use all of its special forces training and skills? (Because "trained skills" mean "skills abtained by training")

Using "training" appears to imply that the process of training is still underway when they carry out the suicide mission.

 

[tedmc]

There is no such thing as "trained skills" though it seems to mean "the skills that they are trained for". "Make use of/exploit the training and skills of its special forces" is a more natural thing to say.

 

[GoodTaste]

There is no such thing as "trained skills"

I don't know where you have got this message from.

"Trained skills" is a phrase well used in English which means skills at expertise level through training. The special forces apply the expertise on the mission.

The question of "training" remains as it is.

 

[jutfrank]

Here, training refers to the skills that have been acquired from the training course.

This is a very common meaning/use of the word.

 

[GoodTaste]

No, it doesn't.

See my edited sentence. Sorry for the misspelling:

Using "training" appears to imply that the process of training is still underway when they carry out the suicide mission.

 

[emsr2d2]

Using "training" appears to imply that the process of training is still underway when they carry out the suicide mission.

No, it doesn't. If a fairly new teacher came to me and said "I can't control my class. What do you suggest?", my response would be "What did you learn during your teacher training?" I think the "-ing" might be throwing you off. In the sentence in question, both "training" and "skills" are nouns.

 

[Rover_KE]

The use of the word "training" is not understood by me.

Native English-speakers don't use sentences like that. It looks like the unlikely answer to an exercise for changing the active 'I don't understand the use of the word "training"' to the passive'.