Posted on Oct 6, 2015
At what point do Army Schools turn into College instead of IET reruns?
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At WLC you will learn how to clean and become an NCO. At WOCS you will be inundated with PT, cleaning, and being treated like you are in IET. At what point do we rid our PD schools of IET mentality?
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Posted 9 y ago
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I think this is one of the problems of the Army. We try to treat people like they are not fully grown and capable adults. When I counsel my soldiers, I open it by saying that they should see themselves as adults, not just "privates." If you get them out of that mentality where they think they are being babysat, you can empower them to make sensible independent decisions (thereby breeding initiative).
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Our school are run differently. The only school where you are treated like a recruit in Drill Instructor School.
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1stSgt (Join to see)
DI School students are treated like recruits for the first couple of weeks to remind them what it was like.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
I can vouch for that. I went to a variety of schools, from LCpl through Sgt. At no point was I ever treated like anything other than a Marine. Do you job, get the job done. Don't act like an idiot. Even at MCT, we had an amazing amount of freedom compared to what I here the AIT guys talk about here. At NMITC (my MOS school), we may as well have been in the Fleet. Once liberty was sounded or we had duty, we had run of the base, or could go out in town or whatever.
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