You sound like my s-i-l even though he is in the "lesser service" He's in his 17th year now. And he can burn ears over the depths to which the army has sunk in babying these recruits. He's gotten flack from some of his platoon over makin' em stay in their armor all the time. Some other platoons are more lenient on some of the duties. But, they're in Bagdhad. And he ain't lettin' up. He says if they can't figure it out by the casualties they can just be ticked at his hard a$$. If I had a kid over there I'd want somebody makin' 'em get in the stuff too!