{"id":78654,"date":"2018-04-02T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78654"},"modified":"2018-04-02T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:58:46","slug":"army-leaders-want-tougher-basic-combat-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78654","title":{"rendered":"Army leaders want tougher basic combat training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> says that the Army is contemplating a longer basic combat training (BCT) for recruits because the pool of recruits is out-of-shape physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

The new BCT will place an added focus on strict discipline and esprit de corps through a greater emphasis on drills and ceremony, inspections and military history. It will also concentrate heavily on crucial battlefield skills such as marksmanship, physical fitness, first aid and communications.<\/p>\n

Along with the new BCT regimen, U.S. Army brass is considering a tougher Combat Readiness Test, which would replace the current three-event APFT with a six-event test Army leaders believe better prepares recruits for the physical challenges of the service’s Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills \u2013 the key skills soldiers use to help them survive in combat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a much greater emphasis on fitness,\u201d Volkin said. \u201cThroughout the history of basic training, it\u2019s always been about push-ups, sit-ups and the two-mile run, and that\u2019s not a true test of fitness. This six-point test focuses more on core strength and cardio.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, they have to do something with the generation that eat Tide Pods and snorts condoms<\/a>. The generation that thinks their schools are prisons<\/a> because they have to use clear backpacks.<\/p>\n

The Army has to overcome the results of the draw down they experienced over the past several years and rebuild the force quickly and the best place to get new soldiers ready for war is in a longer more focused basic training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News says that the Army is contemplating a longer basic combat training (BCT) for recruits … Army leaders want tougher basic combat training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}