Completely aside from the geo-political/war implications, as a general data point this supports one of my pet "things I think which a lot of other people don't." In short, it's the idea that a lot of activities people usually assume require extensive (ie multi-year) training to be even somewhat capable at, can in fact, often be taught to reasonably intelligent, capable and motivated people in a much shorter amount of time. To be clear, I'm not saying that the resulting skill set is the same in all ways, it's certainly not. It's more that in an emergency scenario where higher effort is available and some compromises may become acceptable, adequate levels of competence can be achieved in a narrower subset of tasks. Especially as compared, to the alternative which is often assumed to be "doing without."

A classic example is the studies which found if we suddenly needed to do many thousands more respirator intubations of chronically ill patients, veterinarians can be cross-trained to replace doctors in a week to perform around 90% of normal intubations, leaving the specially-trained doctors to handle the remaining difficult cases. Note: Vets were notably better than other seemingly more related disciplines like e-room and surgical nurses because vets do intubations on animals quite often. That direct experience has a lot of elements which transfer quite well to intubating humans. Apparently, much better than the experiences of nurses who often assist doctors in intubating humans.