Please, please tell me this satire...parody, fake...SOMEthing other than what they really said!
What the hell has my Army turned into?
I am appalled that a GO in the US Army would actually state to a media outlet of ANY kind, that we would have a failure in training of this nature.
For Pete's sake, General, get your DI's off their ass and make them do their job...and spend as much time as necessary to accomplish the training...all training.
But no, you politically correct sons of bitches would prefer to get your 3 minutes of fame by publicizing every damned failure we may have in our training.
Do you not think someone may be listening?
Stupid!
The more the little bastards sweat in training, the less they will bleed in battle, General.
What part of that do you not understand?
Just SMH, SGM....pathetic. And we’re going to invade North Korea? Yeah, right.
So how heavy is a hand grenade? I vaguely remember throwing one in basic.......
What he’s really saying is that they can’t meet recruiting goals if they insist that kids can throw a hand grenade the required distance.
We had one recruit in my basic training that couldn’t do it and he had to repeat basic training. I believe he washed out the second time around. And at the time the trainees were predominantly college students who’d lost their deferments or graduated and were then drafted. In other words, a higher than normal nerd-to-normal ratio.
If a 19-21 year old boy never threw a ball as a kid, he won’t learn to throw effectively with a few days of lessons. But if he’s overweight, he’ll shed a lot of poundage.
No Sergeant Major, the military you and I knew is long gone, not just a laboratory for left wing ideas.