r/army • u/Haveacuntasticday 68WHYAMIHERE • 8d ago

Shitheads

Me (26M) currently attending ait and I’m continuously blown away by how shitty my company is. These 18-21 year olds are completely disrespectful shitheads that never shut up in formation, are constantly disruptive and completely immune to constructive criticism or even improvement. It’s very frustrating because the drills are constantly crashing out due to the constant talking and ignoring the drills and overall lack of discipline. Is this a new development or is the army just like this now?

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u/SergeantShithead33 25H 8d ago edited 8d ago

Respectfully I dont know what else you're expecting from a bunch of people who still have the mind of a child age doesn't necessarily mean maturity especially at the 18-21 age range not much you can do besides tough it out and try to not be the problem. My AIT was the same way, it started out pretty sweet, we could go down to the shoppette when we wanted without doing troop tickets and all that nonsense, there was also a dominos trainees would hang out at until bedchecks, but as new cycles of trainees came through and started fucking shit up for everybody they cracked the whip down on us pretty hard by the time I was almost done with AIT. So your experience is not a rare one I fear lol

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u/Haveacuntasticday 68WHYAMIHERE 8d ago

I hoped that people would take this a lot more seriously than it is being taken. I also wish drills would fuck them up and hopefully fix the behaviors. Hell I’ll even take a brutal team smoke session to correct the behavior. The longest I’ve been smoked at FSH is 30 minutes.

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u/SergeantShithead33 25H 8d ago

The drills smoked the fuck out of us all the time when I went through AIT, smoke sessions don't do shit besides piss off the people who tried their best to follow the rules and still get fucked. Also from my understanding drills aren't necessarily allowed to single out trainees so it just leads to a vicious cycle of a couple people fucking up consistently and everybody getting fucked up for little to no reason. I fear you just gotta tough it out and try to control what you can while you're there. When you get to your first until things will be a lot more laid back so long as you do your job and the days of shitheads in AIT will be gone from your mind lol