You didn't really use it in the cold war - that's the point.
fint:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=590914§ion=news
Police:
The documents show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained," and it will be July 2006 before the administration reaches its new goal of a 135,000-strong, fully trained police force.
Troops
Six Army battalions have had "initial training," while 57 National Guard battalions, 896 soldiers in each, are still being recruited or "awaiting equipment." Just eight Guard battalions have reached "initial (operating) capability," and the Pentagon acknowledged the Guard's performance has been "uneven."
Training has yet to begin for the 4,800-man civil intervention force, which will help counter a deadly insurgency. And none of the 18,000 border enforcement guards have received any centralised training to date, despite earlier claims they had, according to Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.
They estimated that 22,700 Iraqi personnel have received enough basic training to make them "minimally effective at their tasks," in contrast to the 100,000 figure cited by Bush.
This is a pretty long timeframe. Moreover, the stronger the insurgency, the less likely that timetable is to be achieved.
Worse - I read a quote in Time magazine from a US officer in charge of training either police or army for Fallujah or Najaf or one of the other "hotspots". He said words to the effect that they had trouble with vetting the new recruits, and that a considerable number disappeared after training back into the insurgency, much better at shooting after the US training
. I felt VERY sorry for that guy for the magnitude of the task at hand for him.