Navy Boot Camp Extended by Two Weeks

[George K]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382329/Navy-training-boot-camp-include-classes-suicide-prevention-hazing-racism-sexual-assault.html

The US Navy said it was expanding it's eight-week boot camp program to include two more weeks of classes focusing on suicide prevention, sexual assault, hazing and racism.

The change, the first major overhaul in nearly 20 years, comes as the Navy grapples with major shipboard issues over the years that include failures to address sexual assaults, fires and deadly collisions and the rise of extremism within the ranks.

Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture, who heads the Naval Service Training Command, told the Associated Press that the two extra weeks of classes would reinforce the behavior desired in a US naval officer.

'We're telling our recruits ... here are all of the things that we expect you to do, and here's how we expect you to behave and act,' she said, adding that it involves treating people with respect and holding peers accountable.

'We believe very strongly that those types of behaviors are directly impacting our fighting readiness and the performance of our sailors.'

[Doctor Phibes]

How is suicide prevention woke?

More military personnel die from suicide than from combat.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009846329/military-suicides-deaths-mental-health-crisis - now admittedly this is NPR, but at least it's not The Daily Mail.

Maybe modernisation is no bad thing. The military, that is, not the Daily Mail - there are some things even Jesus couldn't manage.

[Jolly]

When you introduce social engineering into the military, you are going to screw up most of the time.

[Copper]

It is important that all the lighter people understand the privilege they have.

[Ivorythumper]

@george-k said in Navy Boot Camp Extended by Two Weeks:

focusing on suicide prevention, sexual assault, hazing and racism.

" focusing on ... sexual assault, hazing and racism."

They're teaching techniques now?