What process is stupidly complicated or slow because of "that's the way it's always been done" syndrome?

As a master driver in my unit I'm completely agree with you Sir, not only that but the amount of paper and time reqiured to license one soldier on one model of vehicle. Its a complete headache. Especially since previous Master drivers didn't keep records and now I'm having to fix an entire company's paperwork and retrain them all

That seems to be the underlying cause SGT (Join to see) for a lot of the frustration with driver's licenses. I know guys who have taken initial drivers training two and three times over lost paperwork.

A TTP that has worked well for me is Iperm'ing the DA 348. Even when the clerks lose my paperwork I can pull it out of Iperms and I'm good.

AF was a little better when I was on active duty. If you held a valid state drivers license, you could drive most anything (non-tactical vehicles) that was street legal. You needed a special military license to drive a bus or tactical vehicles.

When I was master driver I made sure that the lawn mower and weed eater fell off of my license

MSG (Anonymous) - having seen both sides, I saw more PT failures from company and platoon PT than squad and team run PT.

MSG Tom Earley - I agree. PT is NCO business. When it's small unit PT, the Senior NCOs should be out doing PT with the squads.

based on the millions of dollars the military wastes, their is ample room for improvement. on and off base weight room access for those who pass PT test and for those who dont, they get some structure and assistance from NCO and professional trainers.

This is more a symptom of things like fitness credentials not being viewed as important to the same extent things like Ranger School, Jump Master, etc are.
Smaller elements are no more immune to shitty PT plans and awkward execution. I’ve had PT that was led by NCOs who knew how to run it and with NCOs who didn’t on dang near every level within the company.
If the Army taught NCOs genuinely good PR practices at the team or squad leader level, it would follow them up the chain.
If NCOs strived to learn from highly qualified joes within their element, they could better themselves for the future and help their joes grow.

Similar in the Air Force for the airdrop aircrews. Show time is 3 to 3.5 hours prior to takeoff time. If you have to fly to where the troops are, say 1.5 hours, then you've been at work for at least 4.5 hours when you start the joint inspection/briefing with the Army. The Army folks have been there at least 4 hours early. No wonder everybody in yawning. The joint inspection briefing is about an hour prior to the takeoff for the personnel drop. Onload troops about 30 minutes prior. The C-130s takeoff and fly at least 20 minutes and sometimes over an hour to the drop zone. When the troops depart the aircraft, we've all been up working this airdrop for about 6 hours. (Doesn't count planning and breifings the day before, week before, and month before.) The C-130 crews fly back and do another cycle of troops. The second load of troops has probably been up for over 8 hours when they see the green light. Aircrews then fly back to home base, debrief maintenance and debrief the mission. Not sure how all this effects the troops on the ground, but I know the aircrews were tired puppies when the day was over.

Agree totally, I showed up at the school house fresh from combat. Pencil sharp and ready to "fix TRADOC" by the time I left, 2 years, 11 months, 8 days to Drum Enroute to Iraq I was so ecstatic I left doing burn outs out the gate, left my family at the training station for a year.

In my almost 3 years of TRADOC, I wrote a new course POIs, lesson plans, built class rooms and even solicited funding, training aid sponsors, requested university sponsorships anything I could do to get the training real, relevant and up to date with current aircraft (aviation school house) and aircraft maintenance practices. The whole time fighting obsolete mindsets, disconnected "this is how we did it in Viet-nam" mentality and this is how we do it in TRADOC.

Tactical Warrior training week was the only attempt to train AIT troops with current Basic warrior skill, individual tasks G2G small group collective tasks, forget it.

I designed and implemented a RPG simulator using a guide wire, Coke bottle and my son's model rocket kits. For convoy ambush and react to IED drills. It was a huge success.
The TRADOC CSM came to see the simulator and asked how much it cost and how did I come up with it. I told him, can do better, we owe it to new troops to introduce them into reality. For $25 it's worth it out of my pocket to give them something realistic to react to. A year later I saw the TRADOC training site with a contractor running similar devices like mine, but way fancier for Officer training at AP Hill.

Army Training is 40 years behind other services. They fear training to civil accreditation . Mil standards are all but obsolete, super weeds by civil standards in aerospace and industry. TRADOC needs a bottom up reset.

I absolutely agree, but I don't think the awards system is that way because it's always been fine that way before. I think it's a slow process because units and leaders have this faux standard of what's required to be wrote in each reason for recommendation.

It has not. It is still one of the worse parts of PCSing

Back in my day if you missed pt you were AWOL.