If there was one thing you could fix in the Army what would it be?

Treat Soldiers with more respect and not piss on them just because you can and thats the way you were treated. Thats why we have good Soldiers wanting to get out of the military so early in their careers. Because they have been bullied.

We need to stop with the pussifying of our soldiers. Today's BCT is shit. They have stress cards they can throw because the DS hurt their Itty bitty pussy feelings. Well, PVT Snowflake, if you didn't want to get yelled at you should have stayed the hell home. But you're in the army now, and Mommy isn't gonna come save you and put her tits in your mouth. Fugging PC BS...

The BMI is such bullshit. I had a guy in my reserve battalion who was and engineer for UP Railroad and an amateur bodybuilder. When competition season is in his body fat was at best 7% and hung around 12% in the off season. At the time of his discharge from the Navy he was told his BMI was to high... Almost 30%, even though he had recently win an amateur contest and spend most of his off time getting ready for the next competition. So, my question is...How is someone who is very visibly physically fit get a failing grade on his BMI enough times to be not allowed to reenlist to serve our great Nation?

Wow ! have things changed since basic training in 1967. I can remember DI's up your ass 24/7 helping you get mentally and physically fit. At the end of basic you were a better person or a washout. Force marches 5 miles full pack, running partway with your M14 over your head. Then a full set of PT before you could get into chow line everyday.
I may have a false impression but it sounds like things have gotten soft.

Go back to pressing uniforms and shinning boots

Promotion system and promote for knowing your job

Get rid of that gawdawful current blue service uniform and make EVERYTHING worn on the uniform specific to and earned only by the individual, thus somewhat reducing the well noted gaudiness of the Army uniform.

Make it difficult to quit during training, bring back remedial platoons in basic, to provide incentives to those who didn’t grow up in a culture of finishing what you started. Some of the best soldiers I knew came out of those platoons after a rocky start. I have a nephew who enlisted a few years ago and was home practically before getting through 3-4 weeks of training. You don’t make good soldiers without some discipline to harden them.

Active Duty CHIROPRACTORS!!! The military puts a toll on our bodies! Chiropractors can help prevent that & prevent the usage of pain meds, which just cover up the symptoms.

I have two answers. One is a thing that needs to go away. The other is a system that needs a huge fix and overhaul.

PT belts need to go away. We all know it from the top to the bottom. Which bothers me even more about them. We all know that a PT belt isn't doing any good for safety during PT. Then we are wearing them in combat and other crazy places.

The system we need to have an overhaul on is the way we do assignments and sponsorship. I think assignments could be made better by creating some kind of a "job board". Something that shows open or soon to be open assignments. Where a Soldier could "apply" for the position. Let the leadership at the distant end look at a Soldiers record and decide who they want. An example of why I think this is needed is you have many Soldiers that would like to take on certain leadership roles and you have others that may what some staff time. But it seems like you also have some platoon sergeant who doesn't want to be there and some E7 in S3 dying to take over a platoon. Hand in hand with that would be sponsorship. It is definitely getting better in the 11 years I have been in the Army but I still think we could improve how it is handled. Some of the things a Soldier needs to do to in-process could be handled prior to arrival. i.e user account paperwork.