In an attempt to try and bring in more recruits from Generation Z the U.S. Army is now planning to be even less rigorous and intense during basic training, primarily by shouting less.
This recently announced news comes after the Army failed to meet this year’s recruitment goals – touted as the worst miss in history – on top of an ever-shrinking pool of recruiters (mainly due to obesity and health issues) that can be coerced to join, followed by the Army and other divisions discharging roughly 20,000 soldiers for not getting vaccinated.
Military.com reported yesterday,
Army drill sergeants who model themselves on R. Lee Ermey’s ruthless Marine Corps drill instructor in “Full Metal Jacket” are on their way out the door.
Those noncommissioned officers have for generations been a new recruit’s first real introduction to the Army, and they have famously been known to scream, curse and physically punish trainees. But Army planners are hoping that instead of the stereotypical screaming drill sergeants in round brown hats, the new crop of NCOs will act more like strict football coaches.
The military website reports that this is part of a new regimen that will reduce the screaming but increases the fitness and marksmanship aptitude. Many in the Army reportedly believe that a more softer tonal approach will increase the effectiveness and output of their cadets.
‘The idea is to build a bond of trust with new soldiers early on, which could result in them being more comfortable with bringing issues to their leaders. Tweaking how boot camp instructors do business could also help new privates better absorb the training, much of it dealing with safety issues ranging from proper handling of firearms to working out,’ Military.com added.
They’re not trying to make the walls sweat, they’re not throwing trash cans. All that stuff is slowly going away.
The naysayers who we were initially fighting against didn’t believe this new way of doing things. Gentler isn’t the right way to say it; it’s just dignity and respect. People desire structure, and we’re trying to give it to them. We’re just not being assholes when we’re doing it.
Command Sargent Major Scott Beeson, the top enlisted leader at the Army’s Center for Initial Military Training, or CIMT, told Military.com in an interview earlier this month during the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C.
This generation is very intuitive. I think that they can see whether somebody is authentic or not. So if [drill sergeants] are putting on some sort of façade, they’ll see right through it.
Major General John Kline, commander of CIMT, said in an interview with Military.com.
The Army has already been reneging their aggressive approach during training, such as scrapping “shark attack” since 2020, where instructors would scream at the top of their lungs right in trainee’s faces, physically hit them and make them hold heavy weights and bags over their heads for hours.
Staff Sargent Krista Osborne, a drill sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, who was also named the Army’s 2022 drill sergeant of the year, said she realized that she was being too aggressive and noticed that the trainees were not as responsive.
The aggression, screaming, yelling, the excessive physical punishments […] they’re not receptive to that at all.
I was a lot harsher my first couple of cycles because that’s all I knew, and I finally realized that wasn’t working. These trainees are not listening to me. They’re not getting better. If they’re not doing what I want them to do, that’s when I had to tone it down.
Osborne told Military.com
Army instructors are now focusing on more weight training and not putting most of their time into running and body exercises.
We do a lot of circuit training; some can’t even deadlift the bar. With squatting, sometimes just showing them how to squat [is important] because a lot of them don’t even really understand how to squat properly.
Osborne added
The marksmanship drills are reportedly harder than before, with troops being required to switch positions and reload their rifle while the targets are still popping up, which is a lot faster and harder versus the traditional stationary target.
We had to spend time really emphasizing mag changes and positioning changes and, you know, reloads and malfunctions. There’s a lot more malfunctions now with the new qualification than there was with legacy.
So, we had to really just make more time for training, and it was a challenge at first to fit that into the schedules.
Osborne said
Army Chief of Staff General James McConville has also stated that a greater emphasis will be placed on the Future Soldier Preparatory Course at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, which is a 90-day pre-training course for recruits that need to lose extra weight or pass certain educational tests before officially entering into basic training. If the recruit cannot pass this course, they will be dismissed from the Army.
The early results of that look pretty promising and, depending on how that plays out in the next month or two, I think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites.
McConville said during a press conference on October 10th
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[3] Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. [4] No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.2 Timothy 2:3-4
Even though this is written to the believer, the concept of “enduring hardness” very much applies here. But as I have discussed different times before, the United States military is being systematically weakened and dissolved before our eyes, and this nation’s enemies – which there are a lot of – are salivating to whoop up on us on our own turf.
What will they say to the troops now? I love you, you love me, we’re all being happy family!
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Lol, the Barney at the end had me cracking up.
I think this verse sums it all up too:
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 12:1 KJV
People these days (especially the Gen Z’s) cannot stand to be instructed or reproved for anything, and they hate knowledge. And as the Bible says, they are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Breaking down new recruits is a strategy as old as the wheel. They’re trying to reinvent the wheel, but they’re failing miserably.
To appeal to Gen Z? More like to mock Gen Z! I haven’t forgotten how the older generations taught us Millennials how we’re special and important all that jazz only to mock us for our conceit later own. Not that my generation has any excuse for continuing in their pride and selfishness, but remember it was taught, not merely observed. This cuddling of the current generation is by no means a scientific reaction to the behavior of this generation, but rather a tool meant to shape them into whatever weakened sissyfied state that Satan wants his ministers to mold them into.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Watch out, it’s drill sergeants Barney and Baby Bop to hug us!
President Xi to Vladimir Putin: bro, you seeing this?
Putin smiles with anticipation.
President Xi: hold up, I got another call coming in.
Kim Jong Un: Bro!
next up sending our boys to war in rainbow tutus!
And instead of a weapon, it’ll be a magic wand with pixie dust, because friendship is power.
China will destroy the boys, girls, and other things (non-binary) with their eyes closed!
next up sending our boys to war in rainbow tutu’s!
interesting detail in the movie, “full metal jacket”: Private Joker denied believing The virgin Mary, was made squad leader in the same scene. Next scene, during their graduation, Private Joker is the only one seen wearing “The Iron Cross”.