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| U.S. Army has graduated 25,000 soldiers through pre-basic training prep course | |
| 2024-09-13 | |
[JustTheNews] The program helps low-performing recruits meet Army physical and academic standards
Run primarily out of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the program helps new recruits improve when they do not meet the Army's physical or academic standards, Army Times reported. The program provides recruits with up to 90 days of support to "learn how to sleep, how to take a test, to meet the standards of the Army that have not been lowered," said Gen. Gary Brito of Training and Doctrine Command. Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Harris, the command's senior enlisted soldier, also stressed that the Army had not lowered its standards. "We met them where they're at and they meet our standard," Harris said. "We did not lower a single standard to bring a single recruit into our Army." | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 ^ Ft.Bragg was full of non-deployers about that same time. Well intended monthly meeting goers, just a bit over on the weigh-in and under on the PT. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-13 15:44 |
| #5 During Desert Shield/Storm they sent the division out of Georgia but without its National Guard round out brigade. Much politics followed. Finally, the Army decided that the brigade could go if it completed a rotation at Fort Irwin NTC. They failed the first one. Mother nature doesn't give a damn about your mobilization plans. Weekend training and two weeks in the summer didn't cut it for the physical requirements needed in combat. They finally passed the second rotation, just as things wrapped up in Kuwait. That was nearly 30 years ago and well before digital entertainment time ate into young people's daily life and when schools still had physical education curriculum. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-13 15:25 |
| #4 AS long as it is PT related and not a coaching course for ASVAB CAT IV recruits (lowest scoring on written tests). |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-09-13 14:52 |
| #3 Used to be called High School but whatever it takes I am for. |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert 2024-09-13 13:47 |
| #2 Probably remedial english |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-09-13 12:01 |
| #1 Back in the 50s and 60s, the Army actually had to engage in remedial instruction for many draftees who lack educational skills. Even in the 70s, I saw a platoon's worth of soldiers march off after PT/breakfast to attend GED classes on the installation I was on. By the 80s and 90s those disappeared as the service was able to attract enough qualified individuals as to end those programs. Gee, what has happened since then. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-13 07:23 |