On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:51:59 -0500, "JimH" wrote:



Yeah, hot off the press *news*...........the incident happened in June.

But hey, at least I admitted my soldier training thread was a
troll........and John bit into hard.

Merry Christmas Reggie.


JimH, are you telling us that this was a 'troll', just to start an
argument? You would actually use your own son to do that?

You continue to prove the total accuracy of Tom's assessment of you!

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No offense but I need for you to explain.

We picked up my son today at the airport as he begins his 14 day leave,
although most of his time will be spent in uniform as a recruiters
assistant.

He had been at Ft/Camp Leonard Wood, MO for the past several weeks, idle
time after his several weeks of combat training at Camp Lejeune and before
his MOS training starting at the Camp on 1/4/08.

What surprised him was the fact that Army recruits in initial training
(they
are already called soldiers, not recruits) at the Camp were given the same
time off even though they were in the middle of their 9 week initial
training (the USMC calls that time basic training and is 13 weeks long
followed by 5 weeks or so of combat training).

On the other hand the USMC recruits in the midst of their 13 week basic
training on both coasts at this time of year get no time off during this
Christmas season and continue on with their training. In fact, they never
get time off during this basic training.

While I appreciate the support the US Army provides us..........what gives
with the soft Army training?
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John H

*Have a Super Christmas and a Spectacular New Year!*