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Originally Posted by Crash

did you know in boot camp they can no longer swear at the recruits? the US army is turning into a pampered POS, and relying wayy to much on technology, and not enough on well trained troops. if the troops were trained, we wouldn't have people jumping in front of live grenades, driving tanks off bridges and not knowing how to read a damn map...embarrassment when we kill more of our people than the enemy does.

You can't swear at recruits in Marine Corps boot camp either, by that I mean you're not supposed to. Marine Corps hit hard times in the 70s, and had to agree to many regulations just to survive. Now DIs have a lot of rules to follow, or their careers will be over. They have all but ended physical abuse, and the few cases that occur often are not reported. As for swearing, a lot of DIs get clever, and have some interesting words to use as replacements. They can put on a good show for the camera, and for parents at graduation. But there's still a ton of swearing.

Now as for the Army, I'm not sure why they don't allow it. I do know they train different jobs seperatly. Ft. Jackson is a joke, no gaurds at the gate, they get to make a ton of phone calls home, they rarely yell at the recruits. It's the sadest thing I've ever seen. The rationale is they likely won't get yelled at during their jobs, so why do it to them now? Idiots. Guys doing grunt work are at a different base, and have it harder, thankfully.

In today's military, in order to fill the ranks, they have made things softer, made it easier to get in. We live on a soft age, and most of the military has adapted to that. Thankfully, not my Marine Corps. A Marine supply convoy got ambushed in Iraq as well. Want to know why you didn't hear about it? Because in the Marines everyone is first and foremost a rifleman. They kicked the **** out of them and moved on.