Horse_Soldier said:
Uh - I think you're looking at that one back-a$$wards. Perhaps a tad more TI before making sweeping declarations would be a good idea. Course senior is actually that much more difficult than section senior. And just to keep matters on the up and up - our BMQ is small enough that all we have is a course senior.
Sorry, but that was just my veiw on it. On the courses I've been on everybody found that course senior wasn't very stressfull at all, but section senior was (unless you find counting troops hard, say what section cleans what area and carring around a binder that says whats going on for the next few weeks). If a section job wasn't done properly it fell on the heads of the section senior, if a Pte had something wrong with their webbing/combats it fell first onto the fireteam partner and then the section leader. The section senior had to walk through the section with the section IC writing everything down that went wrong and basically take the blunt of everything that happened. If you're course senior and you're trying to relay info the the platoon, the best way to do it would be to call together the section seniors and tell them. The section seniors would then try to get all the info and relay it to their section, having to take the blunt end for any of the complaints for their section, and all of the questions from
about 10 people. The only time on my BMQ that the course senior had a stressful job would be when the course CO was comming for an inspection and he had to greet him and give him a short speal. Preparing for that inspection basically everybody (minus one guy who kept loosing his stuff and another whose stuff seemed to blow up every night) knew what they were doing, and how to do it.
By the way, whats TI?
How do the crucible and the victory forge differ from each other? I'm pretty sure the last section of training for the USArmy is three days and spent out doors, and I remember seeing on a documentary about US army training, the troops being in the middle of a forest, with a little pond and a bunch of fire and some crying (u know, tears of joy mixed with pain
) but I don't remember much else. I also remember them marching along and there were signs on the side of the path they were on that had stuff on it saying what it meant to be a soldier, and a bunch of patriotic sayings and what-not.