Dropping the grenade throw was the one minor negative in an otherwise very significant tightening of the BCT standards.
The changes came because first unit commanders complained that BCT graduates are undisciplined, unfit and slovenly.
New BCT standards will address those problems very strongly. Sorry, but this article author is simply looking for something to bitch about.
The army has a big problem. They have discipline problems, and they have women now in every MOS and they can’t make the standards, so the army simply s-cans the standards. Can’t throw a grenade, no big deal, no longer needed. It’s the same stuff going on at Bragg. The army always found a way to include grenade requirements since the grenade was invented. What a coincidence that now the requirement is gone.