re: Army to extend OSUT for Infantry Soldiers

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Are you SURE that OSUT for infantry was more difficult back then? One thing's for sure, it was eight weeks shorter back then.

Eight extra weeks of being in the training unit seems like "harder" to me. As you know, being in a training unit is usually unpleasant.

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They're doing a week of first aid and a week of vehicle familiarization. It won't be harder.

In reality they are extending the crawl part of crawl-walk-run, because too many are showing up fat and so far out of shape that the normal amount of time isn't sufficient.

As was said - they will find a way to frick this up. Guaranteed.

AR 350-1 essentially proscribes all the mandatory training that needs to be accomplished. An accounting was done of it long ago and they found that the mandatory training (shite that include Summer Water Safety briefings) exceeded the number of duty hours in a year. This doesn't include field exercises, various other commitments, deployment training, and so on. It assures the Army that people (commanders) are submitting false reports. The situation has only gotten worse.