Posted on 02/10/2018 6:26:58 AM PST by Strac6
The U.S. Army will soon launch a redesign of Basic Combat Training intended to build more discipline after many commanders complained that new soldiers often show up to their first units with a sloppy appearance and undisciplined attitudes.
The program will also feature three new field training exercises that place a greater emphasis on forcing recruits to demonstrate Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills, the list of key skills all soldiers are taught to survive in combat.
The new program of instruction is the result of surveys taken from thousands of leaders who have observed a trend of new soldiers fresh out of training displaying a lack of obedience and poor work ethic as well as being careless with equipment, uniform and appearance,
"What leaders have observed in general is they believe that there is too much of a sense of entitlement, questioning of lawful orders, not listening to instruction, too much of a buddy mentality with NCOs and officers and a lot of tardiness being late to formation and duties,"
"The other big piece we are doing in Basic Combat Training that helps with the esprit de corps and the discipline aspect and also lends a measure of grit and resilience to [BCT] is we have three major field training exercises that we are going to do now. We are calling them the Hammer, the Anvil and the Forge," Frost said, describing how the final Forge FTX is an homage to the Army's historic ties to Valley Forge.
"That is going to be a culminating FTX which is a graduation requirement. It will be an 81-hour field training exercise with about 40 miles of tactical road marching that is conducted through a series of tactical events and mini field training exercises."
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(Navy boot camp 1975)
#Me,too! Sandy Eggo, Aug., Company (or whatever they were called) 214. Good memories.
“Grenade training was literally one day.”
That one brought on a “Flash-Back.”
In April 1969, a replacement was assigned to my Long Range Recon team just before we were to be inserted into the A Shau Valley, and I had to quickly train him on our team SOPs. When we got the part of our Immediate Action Drill that called for a grenade toss, the “New-be” said, “I’ve never thrown a grenade, how do you do it?”
Needless to say that puzzled me, as this man had just gone through Basic Training, AIT, and the Special Forces Qualification Course. So I asked him, “Didn’t you throw a grenade in Basic Training?” and he replied, “It rained that day in Basic Training.”
And it all went down hill from there:
http://www.projectdelta.net/the_ashau.htm
I was in Great Lakes - Frikken cold winter
“”They might try putting Marine Corps Drill Instructors in charge of basic training for a year or so.””
A crayon eater in charge of Army basic, never!
"Blown up, Sir!"
Back in your day, and mine, the high school teachers respected the military and respected us for serving. I remember guys coming home from basic training and stopping by school. They were treated like heroes. Later on I came home from boot camp dropped by.
The difference is back then most of the mem teachers, and a few women, were WWII vets. Today they all hate the military.
I didn’t know basic training was done at Ft. Knox. Ft. Campbell next door.
If there is that much lacking at the END of basic, then I think the training is missing something.
I did not have to into Army to understand that “on time was late.” My dad drilled into my head by the time I was five or six.
Oh wait,....maybe I am touching on something....
These days they let in single parents!
That used to be a disqualifier.
I would swear that my brother went to Fort Knox in ‘80. Maybe I was wrong.
Orlando, 1969, Company 205
Knox adjoins Ft. Campbell.
> And apparently, they’re not going to follow his orders on transsexuals. <
The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Paul Zukunft, said that openly. So why is he still Commandant of the Coast Guard???
Trump should have retired him the next day. Say nothing mean. Just a “Thank you for your service. You are now retired.”
The US will need to hire armies of “unsullied”. Certainly, the “honorable discharge” needs to be exercised in overdrive and have serious consequences in civy life.
Ft. Campbell is 150 miles from Ft. Knox.
The problem is in ALL branches.
They used to have basic training at Ft. Knox in the 80s. I don’t know if they do anymore.
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