With all of the changes currently underway with the Army, is it time to finally upgrade the living conditions in the RUBA at NTC?

They improved the RUBA since then with tents and a mini Exchange and Snack Bar. I was stationed there from 2010-13.

A lot of the training facilities are still this way. As money becomes available the tin huts and cinder block latrines are all coming down to make room for the modern A.C. /heated buildings that serve as training barracks.

They have put dividers and shower curtains up in the latrines, the sheds where the shelter halves were are enclosed now. It's not paridise, but it's better than when a used to go to NTC in the 90s and early 2000's.

COL Robert Halvorson, your comment is awesome, and so true. I made many rotations to NTC as an enlisted guy, and honestly, I knew each and everyone of them would suck, but I prepared myself for that and ended up with some of the best memories of any training I have had to date. I think if it was too cush then it would defeat the purpose of going to NTC to train.

"I assume this is sarcastic." Got a chuckle, knew right where you were headed. As an Air Force vet, I always enjoyed the quality of life perks associated with the Air Force and was puzzled early in my career at how poorly the Army treated its soldiers. Over the years Iv'e learned the Army (and others) treated their soldiers the way they do because they want to fight, win and bring soldier back home through any point of entry not named Dover AFB. Never been to NTC but I did have the pleasure of attending JRTC, Fort Polk, LA. Pro Life Tip (PLT): If you're on leave (or vacation for us retirees) and are near an Air Force base, check Billeting for availability. The rooms are good and you'll save some money.

MAJ (Join to see), ahhh...this is a privacy thing with all of the social engineering requirements. Yeah. Ok. How to put this? We, as an Army, need to get over privacy issues and instill in our Soldiers the mental and moral fortitude required to operate in austere conditions. One of those is seeing members of the opposite sex (or gender identification if necessary), in any form of undress, doing any sort of thing. If you're on my tank crew, you are going to see me naked at some point...and I don't care. Neither should anyone else. I had this opinion when I was 23 in the Army and I still have it now. I think the shower scene from Starship Troopers paints a good picture of where we need to get to. Gender neutral bathrooms? We have had them for years. They are called porta-potties. No need to put a female sign on one...there shouldn't be more than one person in there at a time anyhow. Gender neutral billets? Done that. GP-medium. If you are a shy little snowflake, then get changed under the blankets (or under your woobie if you are on the ground). Bottom line is the RUBA should probably be taken down or moved to a flat piece of desert where people have to deal with the suck. You don't become resilient by taking classes or being briefed. You become resilient through surviving pain, deprivation and disease. You don't get it from kind thoughts and political correctness. We need to determine what we are trying to build and focus on the building blocks...not on the ornamental crap.

Sir, again, couldn't agree more. In fact, I'm responding to this on my tank waiting to conduct Table 12. The challenge is instilling this in to the new Soldiers. I know and you know that no one cares about any of that when it matters, but new Soldiers haven't had to endure what we have.

I would still like to see how different it is today from when I was last there at NTC.