Naphtali
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Jump School at Fort Benning was a three-week course. It's gotten easier?
carebear said:I should reiterate, this was '94 so it may have tightened back up, both Airborne and Army boot before it...
Naphtali said:Carebear: There was a work-around at Ft. Wood for the ten push-up rule. I had to do 173 while standing in the chow line one afternoon -- my boots were not within the yellow painted boot marks.
"Do ten; come to attention; and do ten more. Keep doing this until I get tired." He didn't get tired.
That all depends. I suppose if you came at it from the POV of "you follow the boss's orders or you don't eat", sure. But there was a lot more of an individualistic, even an antiwar, mindset before WW2 than there was afterwards. We were not yet a militarized country.DELTA0321 said:I also think the generation who fought that war, coming out of the great depression here, probably needed a bit less breaking-in to a soldier's mind set than the average young American today.
J. M. Stovall said:Jump school was still pretty tough in '82. I didn't see any of the problems mentioned here. But I do agree it should only be two weeks, not three.
carebear said:To be clear, my understanding (and what I've seen in working with the 501st Airborne up here) the soldiers (in the combat arms at least) get locked on in AIT or when they check into their unit.
The weakness I saw is that basic no longer seems to do what I would consider "necessary" earlier in the process. I'm sure the Drill Sergeants do the best they can within the system.
The problem is probably the system.