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Offline rangerrebew

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Less Screaming, More Weightlifting: The Army Is Reinventing Basic Training for Gen Z
« on: October 19, 2022, 07:19:14 am »

Less Screaming, More Weightlifting: The Army Is Reinventing Basic Training for Gen Z
 
Steve Beynon
Tue, October 18, 2022 at 3:21 PM·6 min read
 
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.

"They're not trying to make the walls sweat, they're not throwing trash cans," Command Sgt. Maj. Scott Beeson, the top enlisted leader at the Army's Center for Initial Military Training, or CIMT, told Military.com in an interview during an Army conference in Washington, D.C. "All that stuff is slowly going away."

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Re: Less Screaming, More Weightlifting: The Army Is Reinventing Basic Training for Gen Z
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2022, 07:20:21 am »
Will crying rooms be available for them? :whistle:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Less Screaming, More Weightlifting: The Army Is Reinventing Basic Training for Gen Z
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2022, 07:26:20 am »
Coloring books and soy lattes for all the triggered li'l recruits.
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Re: Less Screaming, More Weightlifting: The Army Is Reinventing Basic Training for Gen Z
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2022, 07:35:33 am »
Mandarin lessons may also be needed.
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