Posted on Aug 10, 2016
Are new recruits too addicted to their cell phones? Is this a good thing?
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CPT (Join to see), starting in OCT69, I went from BCT to AIT (11C), jump school and then to SFTG at Fort Bragg. Three years later, in 1973, I was commissioned a second lieutenant after completing OCS. We didn't even have cell phones back then, and everyone got along just fine. People don't need cell phones, they just want them. Take them away. SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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CSM Charles Hayden
PFC (Join to see) - The Ohio School system taught me to respect books and to be careful of 'breaking the back of a book' by opening it too much, I still respect books, seldom make notes in a book and use a pencil when I make a note in a 'good' book.
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The Ohio School system both K-12 and college level helped me to get great scores on the ASVAB :)
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I think it is far more systemic than just recruits. I think it is society as a whole. I went out to eat the other day and saw this young couple that were clearly on a date. Both of them were glued to their phones instead of each other.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
With you on that. Last school year I would always see a mother walking her daughter to school; great bonding chance, right? Wrong, the mom was always glued to her cell phone and not saying a word to her daughter; such a wasted opportunity.
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SGT David T.
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - And that same kid will need a "safe space" from words...
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The whole world is addicted to them. Everyone walks around staring at their toes.
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