Posted on 09/12/2014 6:52:58 AM PDT by pabianice
Groan: U.S. Army Worried Too Many White Men Leading Combat Units
http://weaselzippers.us/199464-groan-u-s-army-worried-too-many-white-men-leading-combat-units/
This isn’t a new change, the “kinder, gentler” basic training has been around for a while.
I’d love to see a comparison between this change in training recruits and the increase of soldiers with PTSD. I bet you’d find a strong correlation.
This moniker from the old days must still fit:
FTA
The Republic is doomed.
His boot camp was in Michigan, he said every day his drill sergeant would curse their parents, how screwed up their parents were and what they had wrought in them and how so much time is spent undoing the damage their parents did, using lots of curse words. All the recruits thought is was funny and so do I.
We dont smoke people anymore, said Brooks, meaning using excessive physical training running or push-ups to break or wash out a recruit. But sometimes you have to give them a little extra TLC.
Wow.
'Cause they never wanted to leave in the first placer ... as opposed to a lot of us RA's that lied to our fathers and told them they (we) were joining because we wanted to ... not because we had a fight with dad last night.
I said it in another thread, and it means nothing to anyone else ... 'cause he's dead ....
I'm sorry dad .. I love you.
The new strategy - make the enemy laugh themselves to death.
My drill SGT didn’t know any other way but to yell scream and kick butt.
But that was 72 Paris Island
Just don't drop the soap.
[Drill Sergeant Leader Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Weaver
What a joke!
Because you can call time-outs in a firefight and discuss hurt feelings.
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