A *little* info from Fort Knox....

NorwichDad said:
I think some ofthose people have some more personal career worries right now.

Showed DS(He's been home for the last week, yeah) some of these and the Reddit threads. His favorite on Reddit is how we are now preparing to fight the Taliban in an Airconditioned stadium.

Years ago he did LTC there(He transferred sophomore year to Norwich). Having been through LDAC and spent LTC at Knox he could not understand how they had so many heat casulaties. His LTC company at Knox had none and those kids were so much less prepared than these rising MSIVs. At IBOLC the heat casualties were much higher. It was scary what a lot of the 2Lts went through.

On the thread involving ticks, he said dont forget the recluse and black widow spiders along with the many snakes. He would take 100 ticks over one of those bites. Also he discussed the night in the pitch black woods at Benning listening to a group of coyotes attacking a mother wild pig and her piglets. Freddy Kruger could not produce those types of screams.

Military training(All branches of the Armed Forces) is inherently dangerous. At LTC, one girl killed by lightening. Airborne School one landed on car and broke back. Many at IBOLC and Ranger School sent to the hospital with serious injuries. You also had the stupid DUIs and drug offenses of various friends and acquantences along the way which ended their Army dreams. Then deployment which is even tougher.

You put it in God's and especially their(your DS or DD) hands. You hold them tight when your with them. Or go out for a beer with them which I will now do.
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DS got bit by one of those spiders, in addition to poison ivy exposure. Pretty bad case for both, but he's fine now after treatments. The heat was no issue for him. He was 4th Regiment and graduated yesterday.
 
philmont said:
DS got bit by one of those spiders, in addition to poison ivy exposure. Pretty bad case for both, but he's fine now after treatments. The heat was no issue for him. He was 4th Regiment and graduated yesterday.
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Congrats on graduation and Best Wishes for senior year. You can only admire and appreciate all these cadets getting themselves through LDAC this year. I can only believe they will be stronger and more effective leaders overcoming these challenges.
 
Cadet Training Transition

Leadership Development Assessment Course (LDAC) is transitioning to Cadet Leadership Course (CLC). More emphasis on leadership and less on tactical skills.

Leadership Training Course (LTC) is transitioning to Cadet Initial Entry Training. Formerly, this course was only for lateral entry Cadets. The talk is that in the future ALL Cadets will attend this training during the summer after their first year in college. This course will emphasize basic soldier skills, small unit tactics, and initial leadership training.
 
Sorry I didn't see this yesterday. Here's the link and I believe you can find the video to watch from yesterday's family day and today's graduation:
http://clc.futurearmyofficers.com/streaming-live/

Unfortunately the audio and video are pretty poor. I really wish they had done a better job of it.

Glad to have my Cadet back home! He's tired but in good condition. He didn't have any medical issues but one of his platoon did get bit by a brown recluse. Good news is they caught it quickly.
 
cajuncarrier said:
He didn't say much about testing, however, he was extremely not happy with the way things were going at knox. He said chaos is everywhere. He can't believe that the Army is lowering their standards (and becoming soft)
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I found this site a few weeks ago while searching for LDAC information. Not sure what a DS is or if my sons qualifies to be called such but I think probably so. Since that few weeks LDAC has come and gone. He was in the 13th and is now at CTLT.

Maybe he is not the only one that see things getting Army soft and is finding it hard to swallow. Not sure what happened @ Knox but he was not happy to say the least. Of course I know he had a sour taste in his mouth before he ever put a boot on the ground in Knox. He was getting reports from his counterparts about individual Land Nav being removed possibly PT test and the confidence course also being removed. Not sure how the changes panned out. His comment was "do they think there will be no heat when deployed." He was in the frame of mind why waste the time...... so I am sure attitude affected his experience. On a side note , they just found the soldier dead on the Land Nav course at Ft. Gordon. No details yet but I am sure a lot of eyebrows are being raised.

I got a few text as he waited to board a plane in Atlanta as he reported to CTLT. I asked how was LDAC and his comment was "A miserable joke" He went on to say something I will not repeat about his perception of the future Army Officer based on LDAC interactions. He is hard core and of an old school mentality.

By the way, he got an E on his evaul but it was not the experience he was expecting. He had always heard it was an exercise that would separate the chaff from the wheat so to speak and he did not feel that is what he got. Again maybe just due to his TUDE!

He is SMP and has been in NG since a high school senior. Being SMP he has already completed basic and AIT His MOS is Infantry. This summer he had already been to ROTC training exercise (10 Days) and AT for 3.5 weeks before reporting to LDAC. I sense from other comments he made that he thought putting Cadets with lesser training experience held back the exercise for those with more experiences. But as I told him, in so many words, maybe that is the point.... learning from others.
 
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Cluelessparent said:
I got a few text as he waited to board a plane in Atlanta as he reported to CTLT. I asked how was LDAC and his comment was "A miserable joke" He went on to say something I will not repeat about his perception of the future Army Officer based on LDAC interactions. He is hard core and of an old school mentality.

By the way, he got an E on his evaul but it was not the experience he was expecting. He had always heard it was an exercise that would separate the chaff from the wheat so to speak and he did not feel that is what he got. Again maybe just due to his TUDE!
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DS has his 2nd and 3rd CTLTers for the summer. They told him that the Es at LDAC are pretty hard to come by for the later classes. They were acheived usually on the patrol lanes which had very limited opportunities given the size of the group. DS also says he thinks the CLC for rising sophomores is a good idea.
 
NorwichDad said:
DS has his 2nd and 3rd CTLTers for the summer. They told him that the Es at LDAC are pretty hard to come by for the later classes. They were acheived usually on the patrol lanes which had very limited opportunities given the size of the group.
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Norwich- Thanks for the feedback. He was in 13th and got a E. So maybe that will help his OML? He could only fit in one CTLT because of other priors. 10 day ROTC with school, 3.5 week AT with Guard, LDAC and now CTLT. Actually he will be reporting to school a couple days after classes have started.

And again I am not up on the acronyms and a search has yielded no answer and no prior Military.

DS is ____________ Son??? Dedicated maybe???
 
DS = I've heard darling son and dear son but in this forum, I like your dedicated son idea better...
 
Jcleppe said:
If you use your imagination and depending on the situation, DS can be used for many things. :wink:
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You got that right and a few of them I have wanted to use quite frequently lately:biggrin: Just was not sure if it was a military Acro....thanks
 
Cluelessparent said:
Norwich- Thanks for the feedback. He was in 13th and got a E. So maybe that will help his OML? He could only fit in one CTLT because of other priors. 10 day ROTC with school, 3.5 week AT with Guard, LDAC and now CTLT. Actually he will be reporting to school a couple days after classes have started.

And again I am not up on the acronyms and a search has yielded no answer and no prior Military.

DS is ____________ Son??? Dedicated maybe???
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I am sure he will be fine. DS = Dear Son or my case Distanced Son since he has been away from home most of the last 5 years. He is 1LT in the Army and has had a West Pointer and now two ROTC cadets shadowing him in the CTLT program this summer. He strives to make it a great experience for them.
 
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