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2015-04-17 Home Front: WoT

Army morale low despite 6-year, $287M optimism program

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "only 14% said they are eating right and getting enough rest."
Is this because of all the assessments they have to sit through?

Posted by James 2015-04-17 00:39|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-04-17 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The good news, is that such a organization won't hold together long if the oligarchs attempt to use it against their own people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-17 08:55|| 2015-04-17 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I see the 1970s are back. Except that they've done away with NCO and Officers' clubs, so there's not even the refuge of topless lunchtime disco.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-04-17 10:19|| 2015-04-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently creating an Army that "looks like America" has succeeded.

Posted by Pappy 2015-04-17 10:58|| 2015-04-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 If I were on active duty today rather than 40 years ago, I too would be pessimistic about my future, especially if I had to sit through all the safety training, diversity training, homosexuality sensitivity training, sexual harassment avoidance training, and on and on.

Notice what is missing? Doing my job and training to do my job!

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-04-17 11:09|| 2015-04-17 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 ...sort of follows the pattern just before the start of the Korean War (Part I?) resulting in the debacle of the first few months of American action. See - The Forgotten War by Clay Blair. How to take one of the more effective armies in the world by the end of WWII and turn it into a social experiment that folds on first contact with the enemy in the next conflict.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-17 11:25|| 2015-04-17 11:25|| Front Page Top

#7 After the old barracks inspections stopped, the low-crawl, run-dodge & jump, horizontal ladders were removed from the PT test, and KP ended.....things began to change quite rapidly.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-17 11:33|| 2015-04-17 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Apparently creating an Army that "looks like America" has succeeded.

Yep Pappy, but why the hell did they have to use Detroit as the "America" to look like?

Posted by AlanC 2015-04-17 12:56|| 2015-04-17 12:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Airborne tropical fish. Ya gotta love a soldier.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-17 13:21|| 2015-04-17 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Funny, but jumps are deadly serious business no F'ing around allowed. He only has a month left but will leave with an Article 15 from his Commander. (Basically a Military Misdemeanor)Got to nip this stuff in the bud.

Posted by Herb Angimp9478 2015-04-17 16:23|| 2015-04-17 16:23|| Front Page Top

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