oy vey
Welcome to the Girl Scouts.
Because girls can’t throw as far as boys.
“Engineering Schools to drop math competency as Graduation requirement.”
They are all used to the controller button doing that for them.
I guess Basic Training isn’t what it used to be. Those that couldn’t meet standards were recycled until they could or were tossed out.
“...Drop Hand Grenade...”
I see what they did there. ;)
Please, please tell me this satire...parody, fake...SOMEthing other than what they really said!
What the hell has my Army turned into?
I am appalled that a GO in the US Army would actually state to a media outlet of ANY kind, that we would have a failure in training of this nature.
For Pete's sake, General, get your DI's off their ass and make them do their job...and spend as much time as necessary to accomplish the training...all training.
But no, you politically correct sons of bitches would prefer to get your 3 minutes of fame by publicizing every damned failure we may have in our training.
Do you not think someone may be listening?
Stupid!
The more the little bastards sweat in training, the less they will bleed in battle, General.
What part of that do you not understand?
This is sad. Not strong enough? If that gif-clip is real, that “person” is not even throwing the grenade correctly. This has to be a joke....satire. George Patton is probably turning over in his grave....
More lowering of standards. It is no longer sad and laughable. It is the reality of our weak society.
To quote Thucydides, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
We are going to be suffering soon.
JoMa
What happens when they go into combat?
Also dropping Land Navigation Courses?
Have we no Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts anymore?
I forgot, smart parents are taking their kids OUT of those organizations to prevent mental abuse of their children.
But what kind of wussied up course is named Hammer, Anvil and Forge? Straight out of some PR group that watches too many Rambo movies? That thinks the Bourne trilogies are a historical novel?
She is 5’2” 100 pounds inner city, black and looking for a step out of the city crappy world.
Hand grenade? She’ll never need to throw one
Map reading......... ha, ha, ha....give me a break. All those brown lines? Up north? That’s where there are no red necks
WTF? Over
-PJ
Unfortunately, they'll probably get other people killed.
Unbelievable. The thing that bugged me most about hand grenade training in Basic was that, despite the grenades being designed specifically to be about the size of a baseball so you could throw it like a baseball, the instructors wanted you to throw it more like a shot-put, because supposedly the spoon might not come off properly otherwise. But everyone in my cycle managed to launch the thing at least 20-30 yards using that technique. To add insult to injury, after we all did our practice throws on the grenade range using the awkward shotput technique, the drill instructors started lobbing out some extra grenades by throwing them like baseballs.
As for dropping land-nav, that’s just stupid. The military just recently did a large-scale exercise testing their ability to function without GPS, so they know they can’t rely on electronics. You can’t jam a map and compass. If it’s taking too long, then they need to look at how they’re teaching it, they need to look at other subjects that could be scaled back to increase the time available, and they should probably look at extending Basic by a couple of days if need be.