Do you think the Military basic training will ever stop getting softer?

Until you stop having outside influences, social media ect in BCT and OUST it will continue down the path it is.
This should be hard physical and demanding. Currently it's not

While I don't agree with everything you said, some of your points are very accurate. I will broadly agree that Basic Training has gotten much softer in terms of learned discipline and expectations of recruits both in the beginning and end. I will caveat that by saying that much of this is the fault of a weakened NCO corps, and until we take responsibility for that not much else should be addressed. That said, civilians and politicians have had quite a hand in the pot the last ten years and have sadly been responsible for many of the actual changes you have noticed. The Army has the unfortunately large footprint that makes it perfect for cultural experimentation and "test" studies that lead to some non-traditional changes within our ranks. Sheer size and obscurity is essentially what protects the USMC from these same issues. I absolutely hate the profound civilian presence that continually meddles in what I still consider a professional Military force, despite their undying attempts at turning the Army into a corporate franchise. But the one thing I hate more is the declining professionalism within our NCO corps that not only facilitates the meddling but seems to exacerbate it as well. There are unlimited tools at the Drill Sergeant's disposal to use in training a better prepared and more capable Soldier than we have ever seen. Many of those NCO's just are not the caliber necessary to what is required. For this I blame both the Army and the individual NCO. The truth is that the Army should better support IMT by not only assigning more and better qualified Drill Sergeants, but also better qualified recruits. I don't believe that the softest guy or girl should be able to meet low quals and then be automatically transformed by some burnt out DS who has been running a PLT singlehandedly, into a super warfighter. That is complete bullshit. I still view Basic Training as part job interview, and many people just don't belong in the Armed Forces in any capacity. To say that this is a generational problem that we (as Drill Sergeants) have to overcome is ridiculous. Do you think Russia, China and Iran are recruiting lifelong couch potato lazy asses into their warfighting forces? Absolutely not. Having made that point as well do I think many Drill Sergeants could be doing far more with those that do oath into our Army? Absolutely. I hope I succeeded at engaging that fairly and impartially.

No. I do not understand why they can't succeed without whining and simple 9 weeks with no gadgets.