I think training soldiers is just one of the Noncommissioned Officers responsibilities. Noncommissioned officers are responsible for individual, crew, squad, and section training for all soldiers. Noncommissioned officers are responsible for ensuring that we have trained, ready, proficient soldiers and small units as we progress to collective training. In short, it's the NCOs responsibility to take these young troops train them as individuals, train them as small units so they can accomplish the collective mission. I think they are doing fine.
Training is solid.
The soldiers are doing fine and the NCOs are doing a good job. I believe it's time to get back to the basic fundamentals of soldiering, back to the basics in leadership, back to the basics in training. Let's train soldiers to a standard, let's train hard, let's train realistically, but let's train to a standard. Recent civilian media news articles have discussed the pay issue for lower enlisted soldiers by illustrating the point that some soldiers are on food stamps, are living in cheap, dilapidated off-post housing, are deep in debt, are declaring bankruptcy. I guess I don't know what fair is.