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Originally Posted by BMT
This is the first time in their life they have EVER been on a schedule.
Think back most of us here are from a diffirent era.
1. Did you have a bedtime?
2. Did you eat 3 meals a day?
3. Did you have certain chore's to do after school?
Majority of today's trainee's never had or did any of the above!!
Another failure of Mom and Pop to properly raise their children. New babies do not have a owner's manual stenciled on their ass when they are born. 
BMT |
I agree with all of the above, but would like to add a few things -
Discipline - from the 'rents and self discipline is lacking.
A sense of entitlement - kids aren't asked to work for anything, (see discipline) and therfore have no value to place on what they get.
At home, I want becomes I get - and upon joining the service - the culture shock of I want, therefore I must work in order to excel and prove that I am worthy to get, is so foreign that the mollycoddled wusses scream unfair. Soldiering is not for the faint of heart, the weak of spirit, nor those unwilling to work for it - soldiering is stressful, requires commitment, requires work, requires discipline, and requires integrity. Those kids joining the military that think it's just a job, that scream when sent into harm's way, that desert for the same reason - aren't soldiers - soldiers realize that even if you are a clerk you are an American Fighting Man, and may be called upon to go to battle, that is your job, first and foremost.
***rant over*** now back to our regularly scheduled discussions.....