i could be wrong but i think this is just for 11-B's and no special training/A-School, it's just six months training and a year behind the trigger..."Sheesh, what's the point of investing much in training, with this kind of service commitment / payback?"
Exactly. It costs close to 50K these days to train up ONE soldier, through basic training and then their specialty training. What the h#ll are they thinking?
"Are things really that bad recruiting-wise?"
Bear in mind that we have a whole generation of young folks now who will be living off of their parents until they're in their mid-to-late twenties because their parents will enable them to do so, as well as having many youth raised by liberal, single mothers or two lesbians or two gay men who have brainwashed them against doing ANYTHING for their country, and equate "keeping the peace" with "killing people for fun!" (Just an observation from my own life.)
Patriotism, in our great nation, is dying. :(
slow down there...
I think, being that this is the USA Today, that we are only getting half the story.....
i could be wrong but i think this is just for 11-B's and no special training/A-School, it's just six months training and a year behind the trigger..."Patriotism, in our great nation, is dying." :(
Patriotism isn't dying. Americans are dying for a country not our own. That will have a negative effect on recruiting every time.