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Originally Posted by CDRODA396
This article is much better than the Army Times' version. Unfortunately, this softening has been a trend for a long time and is a sad reflection of our kinder, softer, sweeter, gentler, I'm OK, You're OK, Politically Correct society.
It really boils down to if we weed out less in BCT/AIT, we save huge money, billions according to one article, but wind up handing the problem of dealing with those who arent cut out for the army to the platoon leaders/company commanders who must now build mammoth chapter packets to boot them out, detracting from where their focus should be, keeping their soldiers and themselves alive while killing insurgents, or worse, keeping the substandard troops in positions that wont get anyone killed and passing them on to the next unit without kicking them out until they find themselves promoted and in charge of good soldiers...its a no win situation.
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I'm going through AIT with some soldiers that leave me wondering if they even went through BCT, or if they just took it by correspondence. The big joke between myself and my buddies is to just write up the chapter packets and drop them in our Drill Sergeant's inbox.
As a linguist, I've been in IET since November 03. I have visually seen the quality of the average recruit drop. It wasn't as evident in language school, but now that I'm back with kids recently out of basic... it's a real eye opener.