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Green Beret Training Standards Now Lower than Army ROTC Camp in the 80's

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-25 06:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Green Beret Training Standards Now Lower than Army ROTC Camp in the 80’s

All great stories!
Wonder what happened to 'Last Man Standing' in the sandpit?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-25 08:21|| 2017-12-25 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 This nonsense won’t last, thank goodness.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-25 09:23|| 2017-12-25 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Cadre are already calling this out, and the sellout flag rank officers who are using this as a career builder are going to be cut off by the Groups and by non-sellouts.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-25 11:56|| 2017-12-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The enemy doesn't care.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-25 13:30|| 2017-12-25 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Gad, I can remember ROTC summer camp at Ft. Sill. My company was full of jocks. A couple of OL from OU, about three DBs from Okie State, a bunch of real studs from Southern University and some complete animals from D-2 school in Arkansas.

When it came to the mile run, it was a complete laugher. We had this kid from Southern run it in 5:10 in combat boots. I ran it in 5:30, and we had guys doing 3 and 500 sit-ups, not to mention pull ups one handed and push ups tell jokes.

The cadre was just completely nuts over this. They were talking about how tough the physical fitness test was and we were laughing all the way to the mess hall. We made a shambles of the testing metrics.

Then a bunch of the same guys went to Ranger School and had to gut out some really tough training. The Ranger cadre at Harmony Church were a bunch of sadistic maniacs.

Too bad our leaders who never served in combat didn't understand the physical demands of combat and long range patrolling.

I hope Mattis gets his game on here really soon before the damage metastasizes.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-25 13:45|| 2017-12-25 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 SPOD, thanks for your service. Our military suffered under Obama as well as from the sequester. Thank goodness Trump seems to have the will to build up the military and dump much of the PC crap. His view seems to be on war-fighting and not lefty PC.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-25 17:42|| 2017-12-25 17:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Was at Christmas dinner today with a colleague of Mr. Wife’s. The discussion was about the gentleman’s daughter, who next year will be applying to all the service academies and several universities with ROTC programs — she wants to serve as a doctor, and will go with whichever service accepts her, though she thinks she would prefer the Air Force if given a choice, Nonetheless, putting on America's uniform is more important to her than which version she ends up wearing.

The kids want to make the grade, if only it isn’t actively prevented.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-25 20:42|| 2017-12-25 20:42|| Front Page Top

#8 I would expect the NCO Corps to tighten it up and square it away. You Seniors write the OER's anyways.
You know what to do. No more task force smiths.

Posted by newc 2017-12-25 21:03|| 2017-12-25 21:03|| Front Page Top

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