Army mulls tougher basic training for out-of-shape, undisciplined recruits
Time to adapt to what we have... And what we have are not the young men of 1941, or even the young men of 1965, we have a seriously different distribution of physical conditions, emotional delicacy, and mental resilience. Sending unprepared men into combat is guaranteed to get a whole lot of them killed and also the failure to achieve whatever the objective was. War is a tough, unforgiving business, and no place of those without good physical capacities or disciplined mindset. Even in other functions, military discipline is a critical element, without it things don't run well at all, and we've seen far too many examples of that in the past several years. Let's hope this kind of approach will be successful in getting people into shape both physically and mentally. Tough training washes out people now, the Marines lose a significant fraction of those who enlist during their basic training, and doubtless the other services will as well when they tighten up the training. Better to lose them from training than have them get themselves or others killed in combat, or turn into bad soldiers, like Manning was. --Del
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