"changed from running in boots during PT to running in sneakers."
Really? Are we really wearing sneakers? This is not just an exaggerated joke?
AND...this reporter should be satified that the Army initiated an investigation that led to convictions. What more do they want? Cash settlements where sissies and their families don't need to work for the rest of their lives?
I'm not kidding. Running shoes, running shorts...the works.
In most BT companies there was always a platoon of the injured, and the wash-outs. The DI's called them openly "Jerry's Kids".
A marching cadence, which the DI's led us with as we marched past a female company went like this: "They say that in the Army the women are mighty fine...they're short fat and ugly and march like Frankenstein".
And yes, boot camp is now integrated also.
They run in sneakers because they decided the number of injuried recruits (shin splints and the like) was no worth a minor amount of toughening. Training is good, damaging the goods is just stupid.