How do we rebuild the mental toughness of new troops while keeping with the military's new direction?

You can't

Fire for effect, send Snuffy and the rest of the malcontents out with the Walk of Shame backs turned to them as they are leaving, Rip the title of Soldier, Marine, Airmen, Sailor from them, cut any rank off of the old school way with a knife. This hand holding crap has gotten us what?

Start recruiting football players, quit recruiting guys with no options because they've never had to do any work.

There just aren't any farm boys left to recruit...

I wonder if the new Ready and Resilient program can curb some of that. I just don't understand. When I went to Basic Combat Training in 1998, I understood that I would be yelled at. I knew that the level of intensity was severely decreased from previous years. Drill Sergeants were no longer allowed to physically punch or kick recruits, etc. I heard they were not allowed to cuss at us, but they did and none of us said anything. I went to Basic and AIT as part of the National Guard's split option training program with a company of other like-minded 17y/o's. We all played the game, trained hard, and played hard.

It is a matter of adjusting our reaction. If we dont want pansies, don't give pansy behavior any merit. The more we give the more they will give up.

Tell them to put there big boy pants on and get on the plane

send him home with a undisable

Please tell me that original post by PO1 Martin is an exaggeration.

I was in BCT, unfortunately I didnt pass, but I still didnt think I was getting hazed or bullied. That's their job: To break you down and then build you back up then repeat until you form some resilience. That's why they say "suck it up and carry on"

You can't
We have to chose
You can be respectful to service-members without making them into and tolerate them being weak mentally and physically