Great Lakes early 2000s was a shit show, they started to let recruits wear sneakers for running instead of boots like I had to. Officer basic years later became a cake walk as well.
The Navy used to be a great service. Now they have a ship named The USS Harvey Milk. I'd refuse to serve aboard that skow. If I were a crewmember on the Milk, I'd find a way to sink it. In deep water.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that running shoes was a smart decision. Soldiers and trainees should not be permanently, physically damaged for the sake of being tough on them. I'm betting your knees are as fucked as just about every other veteran's is.
Don't get me wrong, I think each new generation of soldiers is getting it way easier than the last in ways that are not good, and this pussified BS has gone way too far. However, I'm also glad a drill instructor can no longer break a trainee's shin with a baton and it be swept under the rug while the trainee gets washed out with a life-long limp.
They should wear what they wear in the field, the whole point of training is to be ready for the field.
No, they shouldn't. You don't start training to run a triathlon by just completing the event route over and over. You work up to it. Some training is done in full battle gear; the rest leading up to that, is not. By your logic, day one for a trainee should be the same as day 12 of a seal.
Or better yet, they might get shot, so let's shoot them.
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