Are soldiers receiving sufficient training?

Throughout my time in service and in the years since I have spent a great deal of time talking to other service members and one thing that I have come across is that many soldiers in the Army received very little training compared to their sister-service counterparts. Then I began to look at it, and took my own experience into account. An infantryman in the Army receives 14 weeks of Basic/AIT and then is sent to a unit. In comparison a Marine infantryman receives 12 weeks of basic and another 8.5 weeks of infantry training before they arrive at their unit. I found similar trends across the board with many jobs (there are a few exceptions). Also, in other branches of service there seems to be more access to relevant schools, where as in the Army schools are seen as promotion points and soldiers who could use them suffer as a consequence due to a lack of openings.

I understand that during the height of combat operations in OIF/OEF training was a luxury but I think my own experience sheds some light on the subject as well. I attended infantry Basic/AIT and immediately afterwards Airborne School. I arrived at my unit the first week in December 2002 and the first week in January I was in Afghanistan. 8 months later we return, get 1 training iteration in which essentially consisted of a week of Battle Drill 1A, then we received orders to go to Iraq and by January 04, I was back in a combat zone. After returning I had 18 months before I ETS'd. We did some better training but only once do I remember 'good training'. Not to mention I spent most of my time in Weapons Squad and never went to the 240 range and only got a 'refresher' course on the Javelin. Anyway, thoughts?