Re: Is it easy to graduate from the Army
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Army rank inflation
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Date: August 20, 2016 02:15PM
Unfortunately, it is extremely easy to pass basic training in the Army. A prime example is Fort Jackson South Carolina, where all you need to do is maintain weight and you can be slightly overweight; they pass america's dummy youths with fake Go/No go -- always erring on the side of "go." Cant shoot, no problem, the drill instructor will do it.
Cant do push ups, no problem they will let you cheat on your push ups -- and depending on the NCO they will let you cheat on push ups in regular army after you get out of basic. Cant Run? No problem, just get a profile from the Sick call, saying you have shin splints.
Got a migraine after you leave the Army? Collect $300 a month in VA disability benefits (easy to get disability from Army) for life.
Finally, there is a lot of pressure on Army recruiters to offer rank in exchange for reenlistment; this is why you always have overweight females in high ranking SFC (Sergeant first Class roles) who rarely deploy. You can get rank in Army by playing system. All NCOER rankings are inflated with only PT tests showing some modicum of objectivity (and even that is inflated through fake NCO push up grading)
Do we blame the recruiters? No we will not, because less than 1% of America has the balls to deploy for war. Look at current politicians. Recruiters are forced to keep people in cuz of luckless unpatriotic Americans. Blacks can get more money doing nothing; Hispanics have no sense of patriotism - when Medicaid pays for everything; so southern whites seem to make up our fighting force (look at KIA statistics).
Who wants to fight for a country when hardly anyone has to share the burden?
God bless those who serve and deploy --- I even support their free lifetime health care for family and exceedingly low health premiums, they deserve it as copwardly American millenials refuse to serve.