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Originally Posted by alelks
This is an easy one.
YES!
Back when I was still active and we had a certain general running SWC we were all brought into the auditorium in the academic facility. The SGM stood up and told us we were going to start training smarter in order to produce more soldiers but we were not going to lower the standards. We all of course knew that this would not be the case. It was all about numbers and they didn't want to spend any more money to produce those numbers. Talking with the other members of various committees throughout SWC confirmed what I thought. No way we could have produced more soldiers in the same period of time without lowering standards so they were cut. Throughout SWC we definitely cut standards and up until 2007 we were still doing so.
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I was in SWC also when we were given those speaches.
I don't think I would go as far to say the standards were lowered, more like "loosely enforced" more than anything else. We still taught the same caliber of material, it was just harder trying to get rid of a guy, academicaly that is.