If a 55-year old can successfully complete basic training, then basic training has been dumbed down to irrelevance. Just do it by online and mail it in.
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I’m sure you’re right because the 55 yr old record for the marathon is 2:25 and every soldier under 25 can beat that, right?
Since when are 55-year-olds accepted into Army basic training?
That’s for sure.No way a 55 yo could have done basic
Training as what existed in 68,at least what I experinced
before coming down with double pneumonia and did the
rest of basic after getting out the hospital riding jeeps.lol
“If a 55-year old can successfully complete basic training, then basic training has been dumbed down to irrelevance. Just do it by online and mail it in.”
YEars ago at the peak of our involvement in Iraq (when the military was overlooking felonies just to keep the troop levels up) I read a conversation with a DI who said they weren’t trying to flunk people, but help them get through. This was around the time those two girls were captured (Jessica Lynch and Shoshana Jackson?); they had no business being in the army, and were easily taken.