A new push to recruit and retain the best candidates for the infantry

[rangerrebew]

A new push to recruit and retain the best candidates for the infantry
By: Todd South   15 hours ago


Members of a task force focused on grunts and special operations troops are finding ways to make infantry a top choice and not a last resort for entry-level recruits.

To that end, they have visited the Israeli Defense Force, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Army’s major combat training centers, the Army’s Infantry School and the Marine Corps’ combined arms training center to find the best practices for finding, recruiting, retaining and training a transformed light infantry.

Army Sgt. Maj. Jason Wilson, the senior enlisted adviser to the Close Combat Lethality Task Force, briefed media at the Pentagon this week on some of the early initiatives of the task force since it was formed in March.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/09/19/this-mattis-created-task-force-wants-to-recruit-and-retain-the-best-candidates-for-the-infantry/

[rustynail]

Grrl Power!

[Maj. Bill Martin]

A new push to recruit and retain the best candidates for the infantry
By: Todd South   15 hours ago


Members of a task force focused on grunts and special operations troops are finding ways to make infantry a top choice and not a last resort for entry-level recruits.

To that end, they have visited the Israeli Defense Force, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Army’s major combat training centers, the Army’s Infantry School and the Marine Corps’ combined arms training center to find the best practices for finding, recruiting, retaining and training a transformed light infantry.

Army Sgt. Maj. Jason Wilson, the senior enlisted adviser to the Close Combat Lethality Task Force, briefed media at the Pentagon this week on some of the early initiatives of the task force since it was formed in March.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/09/19/this-mattis-created-task-force-wants-to-recruit-and-retain-the-best-candidates-for-the-infantry/

The only thing that really works is building up the macho reputation of ground-pounders, and make it a place where enough young men want to go to prove themselves.  That's the formula the Marine Corps has used to consistently attract a higher grade of recruit.

If you feminize the infantry and take away that element, it is going to lose its attraction to the type of hard-nosed, tough kids you want in the infantry.

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If you feminize the infantry and take away that element, it is going to lose its attraction to the type of hard-nosed, tough kids you want in the infantry.

I dunno...even the hard-nosed, tough guys would like Dizzy's shower scene!