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Not a good move on the Army's part, IMHO. Sending 18x's throught 11-series AIT, with its emphasis on basic infantry skills, sets them up for success in the Pipeline better than Ft Jackson or (gasp) Fort Sam Houston ever could.
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"I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt...and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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