There are a lot of people passionate about the armed forces.  And I am not meaning to offend anyone at all.  There is just something that I find as striking.

Not many of you know, unless you came over from JDsBlog, that my girlfriend is just finishing up her Army training (it has been six long months).  She called me yesterday and went on a rant about how the younger classes were terribly undisciplined.  One particular event: someone pulled the fire alarm while they were eating - as a joke.  Then the whole company got punished, for hours.

This is the my personal reaction, coming from a business mindset.  The normal boot camp is 9 weeks.  These younger soldiers only had to go through a 7 week process.  The reason for the cutback was to get as many soldiers through the process as possible.  My question is, “At what cost?”  Are those undisciplined soldiers ready for war?  Would someone like my girlfriend be comfortable knowing that a lesser trained individual was covering for her?

Absolutely not.  Apparently, the government is willing to sacrifice twice as many lives on the battlefield because they want to rush them through the training.  Are thousands of needless deaths a good reason to minimize the training process?

There must be something I am not seeing…

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