Army Dealing With More Recruits Who Haven’t Fired or Even Touched a Gun

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Army Dealing With More Recruits Who Haven’t Fired or Even Touched a Gun
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By Susanne M. Schafer
September 15, 2016

FORT JACKSON—As gun ownership drops among young Americans and the Army trains a generation more accustomed to blasting out emojis on cellphones than taking aim at targets, drill sergeants are confronting a new challenge: More than half of raw recruits have never held, let alone fired, a weapon.

Young people who form the bulk of the Army’s rookie soldiers don’t have nearly the exposure to guns as past generations. And the drill sergeants tasked with transforming these men and women into competent marksmen are going back into training to adjust their approach. Many are dropping the tendency to bark out orders and are adopting a more mentor-like coaching attitude.

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/09/15/army_dealing_with_more_recruits_who_havent_fired_or_even_touched_a_gun_110069.html

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I guess playing CALL OF DUTY doesn't qualify.