Army drill sergeants who model themselves on R. Lee Ermey’s ruthless Marine Corps drill instructor in “Full Metal Jacket” are on their way out the door.<\/p>\n
Those noncommissioned officers have for generations been a new recruit’s first real introduction to the Army, and they have famously been known to scream, curse and physically punish trainees. But Army planners are hoping that instead of the stereotypical screaming drill sergeants in round brown hats, the new crop of NCOs will act more like strict football coaches.<\/p>\n
“They’re not trying to make the walls sweat, they’re not throwing trash cans,” Command Sgt. Maj. Scott Beeson, the top enlisted leader at the Army’s Center for Initial Military Training, or CIMT, told Military.com in an interview earlier this month during the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C. “All that stuff is slowly going away.”<\/p>\n
The shift follows substantial changes in the Army’s physical training. While recruits may have to endure less screaming at boot camp, the new training has effectively made the fitness and marksmanship requirements for recruits more demanding.<\/p>\n
The loud and brutal drill sergeant was seen as a way to toughen up fresh recruits and prepare them for the harsh realities of war, from the jungles of Vietnam to the post-9\/11 battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq. But that thinking is changing, and many in the service believe a less harsh approach may actually be more effective with recruits.<\/p>\n
“The naysayers who we were initially fighting against didn’t believe this new way of doing things,” Beeson said. “Gentler isn’t the right way to say it; it’s just dignity and respect. People desire structure, and we’re trying to give it to them. We’re just not being assholes when we’re doing it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ah yes, we have to show the useless, weak-willed pond scum that is a fresh E-1 from the street respect. Respect is earned CSM Beeson. Fuck your feelings.<\/p>\n
So glad I’ve ETS’d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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