Do you feel that Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training are due a facelift?

With the type of war we face now, I'd say an additional 4 weeks added to BCT.
- Improve PT
- Additional BRM and standard weapons familiarity. (M16/M4, 249, 240B, M2, M67, M320)
- Continuation of Land Nav
- Continuation of Squad Tactics
- IED Identification and 9 Line UXO
- Continuation of First Aid and 9 Line MedEvac

With the additional weeks we should see improvement in marksmanship, Marksman is accepted but we should see and should strive for more Sharpshooters and Experts.
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Add an additional 4 weeks to AIT.
- Add 2 weeks for continuation of skills learned, SMs won't become experts in their field in AIT but they should be better prepared before reaching their unit.
- Add 2 additional weeks to AIT to reinforce some BCT lessons such as BRM, LandNav, Squad Tactics, and continuation of improved PT.
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Finally, after BCT Soldiers are just that. Stop treating them like kids in AIT. Yes they're still new and still need to be eased into it but by treating them like kids instead of Adults and Soldiers it doesn't help them or their unit. Let them make mistakes and punish them for it if need be, but also treat them like they earned the title a but too.

Especially those poor bastards that went Airborne immediately after BCT before going to AIT like Riggers for example. They get out of BCT, get to Big Army and are treated like Soldiers and then go to AIT where they are treated like kids. It's one hell of a fuck fuck game for those guys.

I mean, I even saw a certain soldier who was on profile 80% of the time he was there who missed a lot of required training (I think at least half) who still graduated, and other soldiers who were missing a few requirements didn't graduate. He was somehow able to kind of skate his way through with a profile and missing training and still graduated and I honestly don't know how sir. I know he was always complaining about being mistreated to the First Sergeant. Our First Sergeant was a really good guy, and he truly cared about the well being of his soldiers, but he seemed too flexible on a lot of things.