eliminate the temptation to "help your buddy," recruits will no longer pair off with their own division mates for pushups and situps.Until recently, recruit failures on the final PFA "factored negatively" into how RDCs are evaluated. Those grades determine eligibility to compete for RTC's "Distinguished Leadership Award," which annually picks the top RDC out of the more than 600 stationed at Great Lakes.Reforms implemented Oct. 1, a month before the cheating was uncovered, eliminated the negative scoring for PFA failures. Now the division's overall fitness score counts toward the leadership competition and it only is about 5 percent of the judging formula.In an email, the boot camp CO described his motivation for changing the system."When I became RTC CO, I reviewed the DLA instruction, and with my experience in the Navy, saw that in rewarding RDCs for low attrition, there was a potential for sacrificing quality for production," Pfeifle said. " When you reward the lack of failure instead of excellence, it is my belief that you will end up with a lesser product."There are still potential problems. This includes the command's "competitive flag system," under which recruit divisions compete for honors. That could prompt some RDCs to rely on cheating among their charges, a concern among many RDCs, the report said.Still, Pfeifle insists that boot camp is, on the whole, clean of the PT cheating."I do not think this is a cultural habit at RTC because of the values we teach, but because of the impact a single RDC can have on several divisions, any potential negative impact to the quality of our sailors is unacceptable."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Prepare For Nuclear War Russia Warns Citizens As US Tanks Flood Into EuropeA new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (MChS) has issued an order for all companies employers to prepare for nuclear war, while at the same time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has slammed the US for flooding Europe with tanks and armored vehicles.According to this report, the MChS issued their order on 16 March to companies and employers to immediately provide their workers with radiation suits and gas masks as part of the war orders issued by President Putin. and which we had previously reported on.With these war orders being necessitated after the uncovering of a United Kingdom plot to launch a nuclear first-strike against the Federation this week, a situation made even graver after the arrest Tuesday (17 March) of US Navy Captain Heather E. Cole for her failing to, likewise, launch American nuclear weapons against Russia on Monday (16 March) this report continues, the Kremlin remains alarmed that no one seems to be in charge of the United States anymore.Raising this state of alarm even higher, this report says, was that Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov has still been unable to contact President Barack Obama whom he had just met during a private White Housevisit a few weeks ago in Washington D.C. wherein the American leader stated he may not be able to