“They also must pass the Skill Qualification Test (SQT) which tests basic soldier skills. The latter includes testing a trainee’s ability to disassemble and reassemble a rifle, communicate, maneuver on foot, read a map, conduct first aid, and operate on the battlefield where nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are used.”
Good Times! I miss Army Life every day. :) (I’m NOT re-enlisting though, LOL!)
What a shame that we’ve come to this pansy-@ss approach to training new recruits. Plan accordingly, Civilians!
No way man! drill sargents and company commanders are just dicks on power trips! Now,, instead, If everybody would just play nice, the world would be awwwesome. Theres enough waves for everyone, if we just share.
Sorry, Tim, today's Military is woke. You and I rightfully fear that today's soldierettes
are not going to be up to the task.
I can just see some Pvt stand up and want to have a “conversation” with his/her/it’s Sgt about the orders handed down from Top to assault a target.
Ten or twenty years ago, Pvt would have his/her/it’s azz stomped into a puddle of mud and walked dry. These days, I believe that “conversation” would actually happen… with a medal awarded to the Pvt for his/her/it’s bravery for speaking up for the collective.
We used to give sharks the shark treatment. A bullet in the head or a deep long gash in the guts.
It worked well and kept the population under control, unlike today.
The Army no longer seeks to produce war fighters. The aim is now to produce members of a house full of female cats.
No crew-served machineguns or anti-armor missiles or map reading when I was at basic. And only threw one hand grenade........
A new slogan for a U.S. Army I once knew:
Get woke, get smoked.
5.56mm
Bkmk
Didn't this start some years back with recruits having a number of "Time Outs" if they got too stressed about some training or other?
I still recall being woke up at zero-dark-thirty the first morning (1975) with trash cans being thrown down the center of the barrack. I was bummed but not shocked. Then it was weeks of the DI in the face of some recruit or all. This was Navy boot. I saw at the time the Marines had it much worse. The Marine Recruit Depot (San Diego) was a fence away and they had an ambulance following their recruits as they ran them into the ground.
The harsh treatment, repetitive physical training, and even the relentless marching has a simple concept behind it: It forces you to embrace team/unit cohesion and let go (forget?) about your own individual wants and needs. Nothing is more important than your unit or shipmates, as it should be.
This is a great, systematic critique of what our pussified, academic, Marxist class has done to our military. But one of the unfortunate casualties is the way those Marxists have crippled other people's use of speech--even sensible, honorable military men such as the writer. Dude! Subject and verb have to agree--remember?
We teach others in everything we say or write. So ALL of us must show the necessary b*lls to reflect reality in our every utterance, even in our grammar. I submit to you that a society that doesn't dare distinguish between "one" and "many" in speech or writing for fear of distinguishing between the sexes is almost cowardly enough to put girls in the Army. Oh, wait, it already did.
Many in government and its media don't get the joke. Jokes are to laugh at. Putting a female human being anywhere near combat, or near training for combat, is a joke. Or a crime. Combat is between males, or else it involves a criminal act. We must not let our speech put a lace curtain around this obvious reality.
Great article. Army enlistees should not have an easy time of it because battle is not easy.