I know a lot of people may say something like the new generation is weak or soft, but this is 100% NCO business. If this is a serious thing that is happening, we need to look at the standards and our enlisted leaders.

They don’t care to excel on their own and expect Leaders to hand hold them to success. PRT is the bare minimum to stay in shape. If they are doing everything in their power to stay out of shape outside of that timeframe, they become lackadaisical In their wellness.

Then those 250s turn into 210s turn into failing one event for the first time. Which leads to overtraining or crash dieting, which leads to unhealthy habits which leads to another failure. Which leads to a chapter initiation. Which leads to complaints on rally point “but I’m good at my job! I barely failed! My squad leader didn’t help me!”

So I see it with my guys all the time, they get out of OSUT, and go buck wild with partying drinking heavy smoking all the cigarettes and eating wrong. As a leader I give them all the tools I can for training, classes on proper nutrition, how to train properly, what they need to train. But what he does on the weekend and after hours I have very little control over.

Pretty much what it comes down to is Joe gets complacent and lazy. Hell, I did it myself as a young lance corporal.