‘The First 100 Yards’ and ‘Thunder Run’: Introductions to infantry and armor get big changes
Todd South
A 21st century approach to training new infantry and armor soldiers now includes an early understanding of the legacy they’ll carry and the kind of warfighter they’ll be 22 weeks later.
The infantry is calling its event “The First 100 Yards,†an homage to their lineage of closing the last 100 yards of the fight, while the armor community has drawn from the Iraq war with its “Thunder Run†to get new soldiers rolling.
The changes sparked fair amounts of snark online, with many focusing on the end of “shark attacks†in which drill sergeants, for the past several decades, have swarmed stragglers in a blitz of pressure in the first minutes and hours of training, to shock them into submission.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/10/15/the-first-100-yards-and-thunder-run-introductions-to-infantry-and-armor-get-big-changes/
