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I agree with you completely, this is the 21st century and a more hi tech military of geeks and I mean diciplined geeks.
Yes we still need to retrain and mold new recruits in the way to be a cohesive team we may lose more that actually are the types best suited to playing the aptly descibed video game warfare systems like the global Hawks and soon robotic warfare.
I think its a good idea but time will tell, the old timers disagree I know and they think it will weaken our military but that type of training was meant for ground warfare troops of a massed army trading shots for shots or landing on beachheads but warfare isn't like that anymore, our enemy hides, is underground, lives in secret in our neighborhoods.

Whatever it takes to create the best MINDS and Spirit is what I believe in, some if not a majority of recruits really need jarhead bootcamp dicipline, they cannot make anything useful of themselves on their own and thus adopt the military as a family, I know because I've seen it up close in my own family, my brother was a useless shit until he enlisted in the Army, it made him grow up and become an adult, harsh it was but some people have to be directed that way.
What the military needs is the Nintendo era of recruits and the old way of boot camp may very well discourage a lot of really healthy minds. I would rather see a military of competent geeks than a bunch of moron rednecks. Another country may rely upon massed effect like China or Russia but we the US cannot do that so we can make it up in quality if possible, hopefully the programs arn't too soft and PC constrained.